Re: Idiomatic way to avoid unused lexical variable in ‘dotimes’ or ‘dolist’?

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Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

>> 1. Is there an idiom in Emacs Lisp for writing this that
>>    eliminates this warning?
>
>     (dotimes (_ 100)
>       (insert "I will not obey absurd orders\n"))
>
> Or any other var name that starts with an underscore.
>
>
>         Stefan

Thank you.  I have not been able to find this documented anywhere (that
is, that lexical variables whose names begin with an underscore are not
flagged with a warning message if they are not referenced).  This
appears to be true with, for example, ‘let’ expressions, also.

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