>     1.  Your "do i times" loop performs the loop test at the END of
>     the loop, so i=0 results in 256 (or 65536, or whatever)
>     iterations.  Is that what you intended?
>
>1. The loop test at the end is intentional (so yes, i=0 will result in 256
>iterations). For a while I was using this syntax,
>      do
>         // stuff
>      loop i times
>to better reflect that. Maybe I should switch back? In any case, I'd like
>Atypical control structures to translate into as little additional code as
>possible. The hope is that the Atypical programmer will understand (from
the
>yet-to-be-written documentation) that a counted loop translates into a
>simple decfsz/goto combination, and if he wants to test for 0, he'll have
to
>do it himself.

Hmm, and what happens if I want the loop to execute once, and only once. I
don't want to be fiddling the variable so that I have to enter it as i=1, or
i-1 to achieve this (or any other loop count). If the value needs to be
fiddled so that 256 is a possible count then that should be hidden.
Personally I would expect the count to be 0 to 255 for an 8 bit counter, not
1-256.

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