I'm guessing this is a p5p question, but I figured this might be a better forum.

Why doesn't perl count backward? I've googled and see the obvious solutions to this, but not explanation as to why? 
% perl -e 'foreach my $i (10 .. 0) { print "$i ";} print "\n";'

% perl -e 'foreach my $i (0 .. 10) { print "$i ";} print "\n";'
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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It just seems perl is totally stupid here - first, for not doing what I want and then (even with warnings), it says nothing.

In reply to counting backward by ag4ve

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