Re: dotimes var comiler warning

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Nov 24 2016, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> 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.

This seems to work:

   (dotimes (_ erg)
     ...)

(info "(elisp) Using Lexical Binding") says:

,----
|    (To silence byte-compiler warnings about unused variables, 
    just use a
| variable name that start with an underscore.  The byte-compiler
| interprets this as an indication that this is a variable known 
 not to be
| used.)
`----

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HTH


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