6.s090Conditionals
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During a 6.s090 tutorial one day, a stranger walks in and asks to talk about Python conditionals. She is convinced that, if you have while available to you, there is actually no need to use if!
She argues that, everywhere you would write something like:
if <condition>:
<body>
(with no matching else or elif) you could instead write:
have_done_it = False
while not have_done_it and <condition>:
<body>
have_done_it = True
and the results of running your code would not change!
Is she correct? If so, briefly explain why. If not, provide a counter-example and briefly explain why it does not work.
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