Subject: Re: bug#16206: 24.3; Incorrect unused variable byte-compiler warning in dotimes

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 05:33:31 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:21:31 +0300
> Cc: Christopher Wellons <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
> index bde9b89..06896d4 100644
> --- a/etc/NEWS
> +++ b/etc/NEWS
> @@ -433,6 +433,9 @@ names" in the Tramp manual for full documentation of these facilities.
>  
>  * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 27.1
>  
> +** The RESULT argument of ‘dotimes’ should not be used
> +unless it makes use of the VAR argument.

This isn't a change, let alone an incompatible one.  We don't call out
documentation changes in NEWS.

Thanks.