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

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:21 PM 6/3/2006, you wrote:

>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.



<scratching noggin>

Actually, I think that wherever the test is done (top of bottom) is where 
the *conditional* branch is placed, so testing at the bottom would create a 
conditional branch at the bottom, no?

</scratching noggin>







-- 
Roger Taylor