TH> Well, I just discovered that a FOR/NEXT loop doesn't work with
  > WORD data types.
TG> It doesn't work with BYTE data types, too.
 
TG> I think that it could be because of the 'STEP -1' statement, BYTE
  > and WORD can't handle the negative value of '-1', OR probably
  > only the  PwerBASIC Compiler can't... BUT it should be fixed,
  > you're right on that... ;)))
This we agree on.
While PB probably thought that by using the same type for the
increment/decrement count was more effient (avoids type conversion),
they could just have easily used a different instruction SUB instead
of ADD.
 
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