[Gambas-user] R: Unending cycle "For...Next" with variable As Byte

[Tobias Boege]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Ru Vuott wrote:
> ...I have:
> 
> [Gambas 3]
> Version=3.3.0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Dom 30/9/12, Ru Vuott <vuott at ...325...> ha scritto:
> 
> > Da: Ru Vuott <vuott at ...325...>
> > Oggetto: [Gambas-user] Unending cycle "For...Next" with variable As Byte
> > A: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Data: Domenica 30 settembre 2012, 16:57
> > Hello,
> > 
> > maybe I'm in the clouds.... but I don't understand why this
> > cycle:
> > 
> > **********
> > Public Sub Button1_Click()
> > 
> > ? Dim j As Byte
> > 
> > ? For j = 0 To 255
> > 
> > ???Print j
> > 
> > ? Next
> > 
> > End
> > **********
> > 
> > runs "ad infinitum" !
> > 
> > Regards
> > vuott
> > 

Can confirm that with rev5189. Richard's guess sounds logical. "For To" is
inclusive: [0; 255] and that's everything you can represent with Byte width.
You won't ever detect Byte > 255.