Re: FW: How to avoid compiler warning `unused lexical variable' for `dolist' or `dotimes'?

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean Louis wrote:

>>> What we talk is return value in third place of `(dolist
>>> (first second third))' and it is strange that if return
>>> value is asked from `dolist' that then the `first' one is
>>> warned about.
>> 
>> The third arg is different from "the expression after
>> `dotimes`" in one important respect: the third arg can
>> refer to the iteration variable which will contain the
>> "last" value:
>> 
>>     (dotimes (i 10 i) nil)
>> 
>> will return 10.
>> So the warning comes when you use that 3rd arg but without
>> referring to the iteration variable: in that case, you
>> could have put the result *after* `dotimes` rather than
>> putting it in the 3rd arg.
>
> I did not understand it, show me example.

... :D

> Would that example remove compiler warning?

Yes.

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