From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FW: How to avoid compiler warning `unused lexical variable' for `dolist' or `dotimes'?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:31:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7dooksvd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8597f001-8057-483b-b108-819f66eac879@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 7 Jan 2021 19:08:05 -0800 (PST)")
>> 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.
IIRC we consciously decided to break this compatibility in `dolist`
because a variable that's always bound to nil is not useful enough to
justify the extra hassle.
Stefan
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2021-01-07 7:58 How to avoid compiler warning `unused lexical variable' for `dolist' or `dotimes'? Jean Louis
2021-01-07 10:03 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-07 11:00 ` Jean Louis
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2021-01-07 11:06 ` Jean Louis
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2021-01-07 16:05 ` FW: " Drew Adams
2021-01-08 1:04 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 2:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 2:39 ` Jean Louis
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2021-01-08 2:50 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 3:36 ` Stefan Monnier
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2021-01-07 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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2021-01-08 2:38 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 3:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 4:09 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 5:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 5:38 ` Robert Thorpe
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2021-01-08 7:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-09 18:57 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-09 19:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-10 9:20 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-10 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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2021-01-08 13:31 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-01-08 13:35 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2021-01-08 13:31 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-08 14:03 ` tomas
2021-01-09 7:55 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-09 13:15 ` Leo Butler
2021-01-09 14:02 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-01-09 23:06 ` Leo Butler
2021-01-09 23:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-11 12:53 ` Leo Butler
2021-01-11 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 3:03 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-08 4:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 17:22 ` Drew Adams
2021-01-08 4:48 ` How to get plist properties list? Jean Louis
2021-01-08 5:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 5:46 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 6:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-09 7:54 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-09 9:27 ` tomas
2021-01-09 10:41 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-09 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-12 20:32 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-12 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 0:57 ` How to avoid compiler warning `unused lexical variable' for `dolist' or `dotimes'? Jean Louis
2021-01-07 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-08 1:02 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 1:12 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-08 2:08 ` Jean Louis
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