From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 8711@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8711: 24.0.50; binding _ to unused values with lexical-binding
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 11:24:31 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy61xldmy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zkmdn63z.fsf@e4300lm.epcc.ed.ac.uk> (Lawrence Mitchell's message of "Mon, 23 May 2011 10:01:04 +0100")
>> There seems be no way to avoid a warning in code like this:
>> ;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
>> (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
>> (defun foo (x) (destructuring-bind (_) x))
Hmm... the byte-compiler complains because the above gets turned into
(let* ((--cl-rest-- x)
(_
(if (= (length --cl-rest--) 1)
(car --cl-rest--)
(signal 'wrong-number-of-arguments (list nil (length --cl-rest--))))))
nil)
which gets changes by byte-opt.el into
(let* ((--cl-rest-- x))
(if (= (length --cl-rest--) 1)
(car --cl-rest--)
(signal 'wrong-number-of-arguments (list nil (length --cl-rest--))))
nil)
And note that this is only done for a `nil' body (tho it can also be
something like (progn nil) because that would be optimized to nil as
well), and not for a body like `5' (although the optimization is just
as valid for `5' as for nil).
>> (defun bar (x) (destructuring-bind (_) x (ignore _)))
(defun bar (x) (destructuring-bind (_) x (ignore nil)))
works (because (ignore nil) happens not to be optimized to nil).
> This latter is because cconv-analyse-use is not smart enough when
> checking for use of variables starting with an underscore.
> ;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
> (let ((_ nil))
> (ignore _))
> =>
> Warning: variable `_' not left unused.
> This despite ignore not touching it.
The two warnings come from different analyzes:
- The warning for `bar' comes from cconv.el which is intended to check
whether the variable is syntactically used, rather than semantically.
- The warning for `foo' checks whether pure functions are not called for
their side-effects and it's applied after optimizations so in the
above code, the code generated by destructuring-bind ends up optimized
to something that calls `car' without binding the result to _ because
it figured that _ is not used and just got rid of it without warning.
So most likely the answers I give here aren't satisfactory to the OP,
since his real problem is probably different than (destructuring-bind
(_) x) and the solution for that problem is probably going to be
yet different.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-21 18:44 bug#8711: 24.0.50; binding _ to unused values with lexical-binding Helmut Eller
2011-05-23 9:01 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2011-05-23 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-05-23 18:23 ` Helmut Eller
2011-05-23 19:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-23 20:16 ` Helmut Eller
2011-05-24 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 6:01 ` Helmut Eller
2011-05-24 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-02 11:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-06-02 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-02 13:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-06-02 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-02 17:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-05-23 20:32 ` Helmut Eller
2011-05-24 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-08 12:33 ` bug#8711: bug#26960: 26.0.50; Complaints about unused variable in cl-destructuring-bind Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-08 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-09 9:25 ` bug#8711: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-09 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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