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

[Drew Adams]

> The third arg is different from "the expression after `dotimes`" in one
> important respect: the third arg can refer to the iteration variable
> which will contain the "last" value:
>     (dotimes (i 10 i) nil)
> will return 10.

In Common Lisp, at least, both dolist and dotimes let the return expression you 
specify refer to the iteration variable.  The difference is that for dolist the 
value at the end is nil; for dotimes it is the number of iterations.