I just realized that it works if I rewrite the range as 10:-1:1. It seems 
to me that either big:small should work with a default step size of -1, or 
the documentation needs a note. 

On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 7:32:10 AM UTC-6, Jay Kickliter wrote:
>
> Are they meant to work? I could only find one meaning of them not working 
> (issue 5778 <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5778>).
>
> Here's an example:
>
> julia> for i = 1:10
>
>            println(i)
>
>        end
>
> 1
>
> 2
>
> 3
>
> 4
>
> 5
>
> 6
>
> 7
>
> 8
>
> 9
>
> 10
>
>
> julia> for i = 10:1
>
>            println(i)
>
>        end
>
>
> julia> 
>

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