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

[Stefan Monnier]

> The discussion in that bug implies that it won't get fixed. Probably
> we should discourage the three-argument form more strongly, e.g. by
> removing it from the documentation and changing the advertised calling
> convention.

Indeed, I don't like this 3-arg form of `dotimes` and `dolist` because
it tends to "hide" the return value.  But we keep it because there's
something to be said for not being "gratuitously" different from
Common-Lisp.


        Stefan