Re: FW: How to avoid compiler warning `unused lexical variable' for `dolist' or `dotimes'?

[Jean Louis]

* Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> [2021-01-07 19:06]:
> [Forwarding to the list - forgot to explicitly add it again...]
> 
> > What about fixing the byte-compiler so it won't warn a
> > used variable is unused? :)
> 
> Yes.  To which I expect the reply "Patch welcome". ;-)
> 
> The same inappropriate compiler warning is issued for
> dotimes and cl-dotimes (the Common Lisp emulation).
> 
> Emacs Lisp has decided that use of the RETURN arg is
> "deprecated" - even for the CL emulation, cl-dotimes.

What we talk is return value in third place of `(dolist (first second
third))' and it is strange that if return value is asked from `dolist'
that then the `first' one is warned about.