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bug#31232: bug#39919: 26.3; Incorrect byte-compiler warning


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: bug#31232: bug#39919: 26.3; Incorrect byte-compiler warning
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:08:11 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Mike Woolley <mike@bulsara.com> writes:

> I think people using `dotimes' from `cl’ are going to expect it to
> work like in Common Lisp (as that’s the whole point).

But note that dotimes is in subr.el, and cl-dotimes is separate (though
it's currently implemented on top of dotimes).

> Just deprecating the result parameter because it’s too hard doesn’t
> seem like a good solution :-)

I regret that I said it like that, no, that's not a reason.  The main
reason is that the whole existence (usefulness) of the RESULT argument
and its position in the syntax are questionable.

Michael.






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