Re: Another vote for for loops

On 10 Jan 2005, at 03:20, Mark Igra wrote:
> Just wanted to add another vote for traditional for loops.
>
> I'm translating code like this:
>
> for (int i = 0; i < nRemaining; i++)
>   do something
>
> The suggestions I saw in the archive for using
>
> for (i in 0...nRemaining)
>
> don't work in the case where nRemaining is 0. For example this:
>
> for(i in 0...0)
>   println i;
>
> prints this:
> 0
> -1
>
> which is pretty inexplicable.

That looks like a bug in the use of ... which we should fix.

In the mean time until we fix it, you could use a while() loop.

James
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