TH> ==============================
TH> FOR x?? = 10 to 1 STEP -1
TH>     ? x??
TH> NEXT
TH> ==============================
That example should give you an Error 6-- Overflow.  If it is being
ignored, it sounds like you have the numeric error checking turned off.
In the IDE it is under the top menu, Options/Compiler/Error Tests.
It isn't the Word data type per se that is the problem in a FOR/NEXT
loop, it's combining it with STEP -1.  You can demonstrate that with
   FOR x?? = 1 to 10 STEP 1
       ? x??
   NEXT
I think I recall that PB uses the data type of the variable to hold the
STEP amount.  So it errors out when it tries to assign a negative value
to a word.  Makes sense, I suppose; it's probably more efficient than
trying to subtract an integer from a word.
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