If one is using gopls for Go support for an IDE (like vscode), with semantic tokens enabled, the two cases are colored differently. It's incrementally cheap, as gopls already typechecks source.
[to enable in vscode: in settings, in the gopls section, "ui.semanticTokens": true] I don't know that this satisfies the request for 'an easy way' On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:36 AM 'Axel Wagner' via golang-nuts <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > This ist actually a syntactical difference. Both are syntactically just > selector expressions. > > So you'd need *semantic* highlighting, which not a lot of highlighters do. > One reason is performance and another is that it means highlighting might > fail for incorrectly typed (but syntactically valid) programs. > > And if one does, you can tell the difference between literally anything (on a > type level) - if you are willing to rely on highlighting to tell the > difference between an import and a variable, you can also use it to > differentiate between, say, an interface and a concretely typed variable. Or > an int and a float type. Or whatever. > > So in the context of the question, this strikes me as a pretty unhelpful > response. Yes obviously you can use a tool to *tell* you the difference by > performing a type check. But obviously the question was about a syntactical > way to do so. > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2023, 14:17 Reto <r...@slightlybroken.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 10:19:49PM -0700, joseph.p...@gmail.com wrote: >> > Is there an easy way to make >> > this determination? >> >> Sure, use syntax highlighting in your favor. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/mhisvutsz54nkickwqcxw4n2gqn3ccexnidng5i3p43qusxrkh%40tkbismvv64hz. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfHVwhsrKjZNFWY3a4QukeJS_QP3hE%3DxF-aEKNt7GNZgQQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOUkXSpVY%2Bq%3DHGsBZGj8T_brZFATcBL__bignJEaq9gAZdZswQ%40mail.gmail.com.
