[Color Computer] Re: [Coco] Bug in FOR NEXT ?

[James the Animal Tamer]

I think all the Microsoft 2 BASICs did that, and probably a lot of 
others as well.

If I remember correctly, and I probably don't, the FOR-NEXT loop 
would do one iteration even if the condition were false at the 
outset -- something to watch out for.

Been too long since I've written a program in BASIC and paid 
attention to such matters.  Mostly I write programs to try to figure 
out how the hardware of old computers works.


--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "James Diffendaffer" 
<jdiffendaffer at ...> wrote:
>
> Congratulations... you just discovered the most common test question
> from any BASIC programming class.
> It would list a program like that and ask what the output was.
> In other words... that's not unique to the Coco.
> 
> >I can't believe that after +20 years with the CoCo I never got 
into 
> >this... weird.
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >Benoit Bleau wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >> Diego,
> >> That's not a bug... In (at least the coco) basic, the "for-next" 
> >> variable  contains +1 at the end of the loop.
> >> Try this:
> >> 10 FOR A=1 to 10: NEXT
> >> 20 PRINT A
> >>
> >> This should print 11.
>






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