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points by MaulingMonkey 3 hours ago | 0 comments

I prefer:

    const size_t n = 10;
    for (size_t i = n; i --> 0;) {
        std::cout << i << "\n";
    }

[–] hedgehog 3 hours ago

That's a certain kind of taste... I checked out your home page, game dev, check, and this work of art is worth linking (no irony, I love it):

http://maulingmonkey.com/brainfuck/

[–] omoikane 2 hours ago

That looks like the brainfuck mandelbrot set by Erik Bosman, but the example is missing the header line with the credit. The one I saw came from here:

https://github.com/thaliaarchi/bfcorpus/blob/main/ebosman/ma...

Be sure to check out other files in that directory for how the program is assembled.

(Erik Bosman's mandelbrot set is a personal favorite of mine, very useful for benchmarking brainfuck interpreters)

[–] ranger_danger 3 hours ago

Cute but wouldn't work with ssize_t :)

VHDL's array/vector syntax actually works a similar way:

-- gives 0, 1, 2, 3:

for i in 0 to 3 loop

-- gives 3, 2, 1, 0:

for i in 3 downto 0 loop

-- Source - https://stackoverflow.com/a/7642026 -- Posted by Kerrek SB -- Retrieved 2026-10-29, License - CC BY-SA 3.0

[–] fourthark 3 hours ago

Does work with ssize_t, just not necessary.

[–] ranger_danger 2 hours ago

Depends on your definition of "work".

For me it does not work because I'd want to use it with values < 0, but the for loop checks for > 0, so I would have to modify that first.