Is there a technical reason to use > (<) instead of != when incrementing by 1 in a 'for' loop?

Question

I almost never see a for loop like this:

for (int i = 0; 5 != i; ++i)
{}

Is there a technical reason to use >

Answer 1

Besides the examples, where the loop variable will (unintentional) change inside the body, there are other reasions to use the smaller-than or greater-than operators:

• Negations make code harder to understand
• < or > is only one char, but != two