Cleanest way to write retry logic?

Question

Occasionally I have a need to retry an operation several times before giving up. My code is like:

int retries = 3;
while(true) {
  try {
    DoSomething();
         


        

Answer 1

Or how about doing it a bit neater....

int retries = 3;
while (retries > 0)
{
  if (DoSomething())
  {
    retries = 0;
  }
  else
  {
    retries--;
  }
}

I believe throwing exceptions should generally be avoided as a mechanism unless your a passing them between boundaries (such as building a library other people can use). Why not just have the DoSomething() command return true if it was successful and false otherwise?

EDIT: And this can be encapsulated inside a function like others have suggested as well. Only problem is if you are not writing the DoSomething() function yourself