I think also the construction of the for loop makes it more natural. Lua is "for...

qznc · on Jan 28, 2013

The unintuitive thing about this choice is that "for i = n,m" calls the loop body "m-n+1" times. The "for (i = n; i < m; i++)" does it "m-n" times.

unwind · on Jan 28, 2013

If your for loop is for a 0-based language, it's wrong because it starts with 1.

If it's for a 1-based language, it's wrong because it compares with "<" and not "<=".

So, I guess that proves your point that it's error-prone. :)

In C, the idiomatic way is (as you surely know) "for(i = 0; i < n; ++i)".

justincormack · on Jan 28, 2013

typo, the second one was supposed to be 0 based... although that shows how off by 1 errors occur.