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Fwd: Re: dotimes var comiler warning

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: 25017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25017: Fwd: Re: dotimes var comiler warning
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:10:02 +0100

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See text below, thanks!


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: dotimes var comiler warning
Date: 	Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:32:44 +0100
From: 	Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: 	Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
CC: 	Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>



Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:

> when employing a form
>
> (dotimes (i erg)
>
>    ...do-something
>
>
> Compiler sends a warning "Unused lexical variable ‘i’ - whilst seems
> no way to leave out such a var.
>
> Worth a bug-report?

If none exists yet, I'm for it.  FWIW, there is a FIXME comment in the
source code already.

Yes, you can probably use `_' to suppress the warning, but I always
wondered why something called like this requires a variable to be
specified (mandatorily) at all.


Michael.

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