occam's razor: most likely the playground is running an old gofmt.

$ gofmt t.go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

type myint = int

func main() {
    var ii myint = 5
    fmt.Println("Hello, playground#", ii)
}
$ ~/go1.4/bin/gofmt t.go
t.go:7:12: expected type, found '='
...

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Tong Sun <suntong...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Go 1.9 introduced type alias but the `gofmt` that comes with go 1.9 can't
> handle type alias.
>
> Demo here:
>
> https://play.golang.org/p/ldzfOJfj7V
>
> 7:11: expected type, found '=' (and 1 more errors)
>
>
> but it runs fine.
>
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