Re: 12 hackers hacking...

[Stephen Weeks]

Not long ago, Mark J. Reed proclaimed...
> What's the consensus on how to do an idiomatic countdown loop?  I used
> for [1..$n].reverse...

This: will work eventually:
    for $n..1:by(-1) { ... }

This currently works in rakudo:
    for (1..$n).reverse { ... }