in reply to the '..' operator and decreasing values

That's roughly equivalent to: 
for(my $i=10;$i<=0;$i++) {
  # do something
}

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You can't use .. to count backwards, but try this: 

for my $i (reverse 0..10) {
  # do something
}

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for $a(-2,12){for $b(0..7){$c=0;$_?hex substr(
ef7fa1866706caeff02289402844,2*$_+$a,2)&2**(7-$b):0
and $c+=2**(7-$_)for(0..7);print chr $c;}}

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Re^2: the '..' operator and decreasing values
by jhourcle (Prior) on Mar 05, 2005 at 02:17 UTC

    You might prefer

    for ( my $i = 10; $i--; ) {
  # do something
}

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    I regularly walk array indexes backwards, as you can shave a few cycles off of the standard

    for ( my $i = 0; $i < $array_size; $i++ ) {
  # whatever
}

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    logic that people love using in those languages that don't have a 'foreach' command.

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