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by iand 3507 days ago
Er... https://play.golang.org/p/QyQVFfPIhx
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stouset 3507 days ago
Is this a recent change? I've with 100% been bitten by this before, repeatedly, and the go compiler did nothing to warn about it.
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masklinn 3507 days ago
Maybe for a side-effecting function which would only return an error?

edit: nope, fails with "err evaluated but not used".

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stouset 3506 days ago
I'm genuinely stumped. If they've fixed this, that's fantastic because I have absolutely shipped code with this bug to a production environment.
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iand 3506 days ago
I've been working with Go for 4 years and I've not encountered it. Perhaps there was an edge case where it was allowed, but I don't recall it.
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