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

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean Louis wrote:

>>> 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.
>> 
>> What about fixing the byte-compiler so it won't warn a used
>> variable is unused? :)
>
> That is what I was thinking, or

Not "or", and :)

> some other way of programming to declare the variable.

Use `cl-loop', the `for' variant, for this.

No manual/explicit "length" business, no byte-compiler issues,
looks and works great.

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