How to make a reverse ordered for loop in Rust?

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Your code doesn't work because a uint of value -1 is equal the maximum value of uint. The range_step iterator stops immediately upon detecting overflow. Using an int fixes this.

std::iter::range_step(100i, 0, -1)

You can also reverse an iterator with rev().

for n in range(0u, 100).rev() { ... }

Though note that this will be from 99->0, rather than 100->1.