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In article <mailman.2569.1379688787.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:

> Am 20.09.2013 14:30, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> >> If I purposefully use a local dynamic variable as in:
> >
> > Use (defvar my-counter) at the file's top-level to indicate that this
> > variable is used in a way that relies on dynamic scoping.
> 
> A need to write code just to silence compiler warnings?
> Emacs could do better.

Other than "code", what would you suggest? A commenting convention to 
suppress warnings? But comments are removed by the reader, before the 
compiler gets to process the code.

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