Here is the example code I entered into my 100 Days of SwiftUI playground -

var id = Int.random(in: 1...20)

var roll = 0

while roll != 20 { // roll = id roll = Int.random(in: 1...20) print("I rolled a (roll)") } print("Critical hit!")

The while loop works as written, but if I comment out roll = Int.random(in: 1...20) And uncomment roll = id it creates an infinite loop and Xcode crashes.

I'm not sure why the var id doesn't work the same for either statement.

HIiii! You need to put a \ before the (roll) so that it reads "I rolled a \(roll)" . String interpolation.... I don't know who thinks up words like interpolation, makes me think of bees for some reason, which has nothing to do with coding. Anyway, I'm not sure if that is your specific problem because of the way you have posted your code. While you are placing code in this forum you'll need to use the code button above </> so that when you insert code it looks correct to us coders, otherwise looking at your code above you have to use ; to seperate by lines...If you meant to have it all on one line that is. Try copy and pasting this into your playground and commenting out your own set of mnemonics, I'm pretty sure you'll figure out the issue/differences if it's not the \ causing it:

import SwiftUI

var id = Int.random(in: 1...20)

var roll = 0

while roll != 20 {roll = id
    roll = Int.random(in: 1...20)
    print("I rolled a \(roll)") }
    print("Critical hit!")

I'll restate the question using code button: Here is the example code I entered into my 100 Days of SwiftUI playground -

var id = Int.random(in: 1...20)

var roll = 0

while roll != 20 {
//    roll = id
    roll = Int.random(in: 1...20)
    print("I rolled a \(roll)")
}
print("Critical hit!")

The while loop works as written, but if I comment out

roll = Int.random(in: 1...20) 

And uncomment

roll = id 

it creates an infinite loop and Xcode crashes.

I'm not sure why setting the value of the variable roll to var id doesn't work the same for either statement.

id gets set to a new Int every time through the loop and therefore has the possibility of eventually hitting 20 and ending the loop.

Do you mean roll get a new Int not id

Yep, @NigelGee, that's right. My bad. I'll edit that.