Re: Nicest equivalent to counted "for" loop?

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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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Nicest equivalent to counted "for" loop? brec <sbrecher@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 13:58 -0800
  Re: Nicest equivalent to counted "for" loop? sbrecher@gmail.com - 2016-12-01 14:01 -0800
    Re: Nicest equivalent to counted "for" loop? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-12-02 20:56 +0100
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