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

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Sun 10 Jan 2021 at 09:52, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> I see that Emacs Lisp does not have a way to distinguish the two cases.
>>
>> In Common Lisp, (declare (ignore i)) means ignore unused variable i.  If
>> i is used, I get a warning.
>
> ELisp's equivalent is to use a variable name with a leading underscore
> such as `_i` (or just `_`).

That's good to know, thank you!