when retries are 0 this means endless retries

[piccione99]

My current understanding is 0 retries means endless retries as does negative retries. This seems very dangerous. Is there a scenario where we don't want a limit on retries?

[johnabass]

This is a pretty common pattern in golang

[schmidtw]

If MaxRetries is set to 0, instead of defaulting to retrying forever, no retry attempts makes more sense. The value of -1 still means forever, but as defined presently there is no way to disable this by using a zero value, and sometimes we need that.