You are correct sir, and unfortunately, go vet doesn't find it either.
But if you lint your code with golangci-lint (
https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint)
the deadcode linter will find it for you.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 9:35 AM Danny Hart <iamdanielh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Very new gopher here (also first time using Groups, please excuse poor
> etiquette). I was curious why the following basic program compiles with an
> unused var. Is it the case that the compiler only complains about unused
> vars in a function body?
>
> package main
>
> import (
> "fmt"
> )
>
> var (
> x int
> )
>
> func main() {
> fmt.Println("Hello, playground")
> }
>
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