On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Kurt Ewald wrote:
> Dear GAP
> for i in [1..n] is possible, but is there a way to use
> for i in [n..1], what is in other languages down to
> Merci
> K.Ewald

Dear Kurt,

This is really a RTFM ... there are two ways:

for i in [n, n-1 .. 1] do

or

for i in Reversed([1..n]) do

[n..1] evaluates to the empty list if n > 1 ... which as
evidenced by the function you asked to be debugged, is precisely
what you want, (most of the time) ... it allows for somewhat naive
programming. In my experience, it is the usual convention of algebraic
languages.

  Regards,
  Greg Gamble
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