I prefer:
const size_t n = 10;
for (size_t i = n; i --> 0;) {
std::cout << i << "\n";
}That's a certain kind of taste... I checked out your home page, game dev, check, and this work of art is worth linking (no irony, I love it):
loading story #50299111
Cute but wouldn't work with ssize_t :)
VHDL's array/vector syntax actually works a similar way:
-- gives 0, 1, 2, 3:
for i in 0 to 3 loop
-- gives 3, 2, 1, 0:
for i in 3 downto 0 loop
-- Source - https://stackoverflow.com/a/7642026 -- Posted by Kerrek SB -- Retrieved 2026-10-29, License - CC BY-SA 3.0