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

[Alex Evans]

On Jun 2, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Willard Goosey wrote:

> That's a Pascal-ism, actually.
>
> The thing that surprised ME when I ran across it in BASIC is that
> FOR-NEXT loops always go through the loop at least once, even in cases
> like:
> 10 A=0
> 20 FOR B=1 TO A
> 30 REM DO SOMETHING
> 40 NEXT B
>
> Willard

Not really surprising considering that you can either test at the  
bottom or at the top and testing at the bottom creates an  
unconditional branch at the bottom of the loop.