From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: FW: How to avoid compiler warning `unused lexical variable' for `dolist' or `dotimes'? Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:19:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87im88npb9.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87o8i1ou7m.fsf@zoho.eu> <0db0bc9d-7efb-4d3e-8462-545d0a5b25f5@default> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1562"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:j7Aolfh+xaAhCTRvlBvVZE99IYE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 08 03:23:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kxhQx-0000HM-Rm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:23:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45040 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxhQw-0005l4-U2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:23:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxhQR-0005ki-Kh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:22:51 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:51166) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxhQQ-0003dk-6W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:22:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kxhQN-000AA6-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:22:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127072 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > Elisp byte-compiler warnings can be helpful. But they can > also often be noisy and sometimes wrong/misleading. > Warning about warnings: Caveat lector. Individual warnings can be incorrect (if so, they are bugs) but the warning concept is good. In the future compilers will be able to refactor and polish code to the degree it won't be possible to determine who wrote it, a seasoned pro, or a guy they just found on the street, who seems to have an unusual talent: what is really simple, he seems to understand almost instantly... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal