I expect most counting for loops are one of two types: 'count from A to B inclusive' and 'count N numbers starting from M'. We commonly have syntax for the fir

I expect most counting for loops are one of two types: 'count from A to B inclusive' and 'count N numbers starting from M'. We commonly have syntax for the first, or sometimes some variant of it designed to avoid the `-1' in the common case, at the cost of complicating some other cases. It's also common to have some rather over-general iterating mechanism called "for" that covers both, or tries to. But I don't think I've ever seen anything special for the second, for some reason. And the iteration counter and the loop value could have different types - so you could count 128 int8_t values if you wanted. Though in most cases you'd just use it as a replacement for "for(i=m;i<m+n;++i) {do stuff with i}" or "(for i=0;i<n;++i) {do stuff with m+i}". (One possible exception: the ancient 1980s computer I used as a boy had two syntaxes for saving blocks of memory. You could enter the range as "A B" (save from A to B inclusive), or as "M+N" (save N bytes starting from M).)