Re: Nicest equivalent to counted "for" loop?

From	"Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.ruby
Subject	Re: Nicest equivalent to counted "for" loop?
Date	2017-01-15 14:03 +0000
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On 12/1/2016, brec wrote:

> Currently I've got...
> 
> $Count = 192 # some arbitrary constant, or command line argument, or input; > 0
> 
> $i = $Count
> while (i -= 1) >= 0
>    # some stuff
> end
> 
> ...In other languages I'd use a counted "for"
> loop. Is there something more elegant than the above?

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