Well, I pointed out at the beginning that one can use recursion, and the implementation of the `while` construct itself uses recursion as well (in fact, you can't implement `while` without it in Elixir).
In any case, expressing the equivalent of a `while` loop with predicates and timeouts is quite syntactically noisy in Elixir - it is certainly doable, but much less clear than the imperative equivalent.
In any case, expressing the equivalent of a `while` loop with predicates and timeouts is quite syntactically noisy in Elixir - it is certainly doable, but much less clear than the imperative equivalent.