In FB2, all FOR/NEXT loops are executed at least once. In FB^3 _some_ loops
are not executed if the start value is greater than the finish value. The
example program in FB2 prints hello 1, hello 2, hello 3, hello 4. In FB^3
it only prints hello 3, hello 4.

When I first saw the skipping (in FOR j=2 TO 1) I thought "Goodie! FB is at
last like C, Fortran, Pascal, Quickbasic, RealBasic...". But it seems that
this long overdue improvement has not been applied consistently. None of
the loops should execute, and, of course, the documentation should reflect
the changed behaviour.

A bug report has been sent to Staz.

'---------------------------------------------
WINDOW 1
DIM j, start, finish
start=2
finish=1

FOR j=2 TO 1
 PRINT "hello 1"
NEXT

FOR j=start TO 1
 PRINT "hello 2"
NEXT

FOR j=start TO finish
 PRINT "hello 3"
NEXT

FOR j=2 TO finish
 PRINT "hello 4"
NEXT

DO
UNTIL FN BUTTON
'------------------------------------------------

Robert Purves