Re: suppressable byte compilation warnings and cconv.el

[Paul Pogonyshev]

> You can silence those (and yes, selectively this time) by prefixing the
> variable name with an underscore, which makes it explicit that you know
> the variable is not used.

Yes, I know about that, but that means you have to go about each
individual warning in every function. And remember to rename
parameters by adding/removing underscore when usage inside the
function changes. I'd like to also have the ability to silence all
such warnings altogether.

Paul

On 14 April 2016 at 03:35, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> In file `bytecomp.el' there is a customizable variable
>> `byte-compile-warnings' that allows one to selectively silence certain
>> warnings.
>
> I wouldn't use the word "selectively" to describe it.
> It's extremely coarse only allowing you to control broad categories of
> errors file-wide.
>
>> In particular, I'm annoyed by warnings like this:
>>     Warning: Unused lexical argument ‘size’
>
> You can silence those (and yes, selectively this time) by prefixing the
> variable name with an underscore, which makes it explicit that you know
> the variable is not used.
>
>
>         Stefan
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