empty for-loops purpose

[4ET0pfjN]

Is it good to use empty for-loops as such:

struct node *read_numbers (void) 
{ 

 struct node *first = NULL;
 int n;
 printf ("Enter a series of integers (0 to terminate); ");
 for (;;) 
 {

  scanf ("%d", &n);
  if (n == 0)
   return first;
  first = add_to_list (first, n);
 }
}

I found in C book, or is same purpose as a while loop so just loops until it enters the if-statement...

[4ET0pfjN]

i get it, it's just a loop so difference is rather than evaulate condition in the for loop header or while loop header, it needs to evaulate condition inside loop and we must have a return or break to exit loop...neat such as:

int counter = 0;
for(;;)
{
	if ( counter == 10 )
	{
		cout << endl << "hello" << endl;
		break;
	}
	else
		cout << counter++ << " ";
}