Notably, this requires you to use a signed index type, which is absurd. The alternative is to use the so-called goes-to operator: for (i=N; i --> 0;). But this

Notably, this requires you to use a signed index type, which is absurd. The alternative is to use the so-called goes-to operator: for (i=N; i --> 0;). But this actually relies on the postincrement semantics, which is a huge wart.