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by alpaca128 1379 days ago
> you can assign it away via: _ = somevar

If one suggested this in any other language to suppress "unused variable" warnings it would be considered a lazy way to avoid fixing the issue.

Meanwhile the developer of Zig himself recommended doing this[0] which only shows what a bad idea it is to make this a compiler error imho. It encourages workarounds and enforces something we automated long ago in the form of dead code elimination.

[0] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335#issuecomment-43526...

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It's how Go works...