[LC++]int versus unsigned int

[Robert Wuest]

OOPS, You're right!!

What got me, I needed to include 0 (I was reversing though an array), and I did 

for( cnt=13; cnt>-1; cnt-- )
               blah_blah_blah;


Robert

Carlo Wood wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:55:32PM -0500, Robert Wuest wrote:
> > This one just got me the other day:
> >
> >       unsigned int cnt;
> >       .
> >       .
> >       .
> >       for( cnt=13; cnt>0; cnt-- )
> >               blah_blah_blah;
> >
> > An infinite loop!
> 
> Seems to work fine to me.  It will terminate on cnt == 0.
> 
> By the way, when programming C++, you should do
> 
>   for(int cnt = 13; cnt > 0; --cnt)
> 
> (Declare the counter inside the loop).
> 
> --
> Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>
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