no-unused-vars bug (for plus plus)

config is "no-unused-vars": "warn" warn:

var j = 0; // j is assigned a value but never used
while(typeof window === 'object'){
  j++;
}

ok:

var j = 0;
while(typeof window === 'object'){
  j = j + 1;
}

can you make the j++ to ok ?

[platinumazure]

Look, the problem is that except for the increment, no one else sees the value of j at all. You could remove j entirely from your code and it would have the same effects to calling code.

Your code, in terms of observable side effects, is exactly the same as this code:

while(typeof window === 'object'){
}

You need to finish writing your code (as in, write the lines where j is actually passed to another function or returned or used in an expression). Right now, the rule is correctly noting that j is not used except for self-modification.

[not-an-aardvark]

Closing because this is working as intended.