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> >
