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[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Cleaner code. That's all.

If you need to take variable you don't use for some reason (like it's a function arg that has to follow an interface, but it doesn't need a specific parameter in this case), then you can prefix it with an underscore.

[-] expr@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

That's what warnings are for and -werror for production builds in literally any other language. This has been a solved problem for a very long time.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Sure. Tell that to the Go devs.

If the language weren't pushed by Google, nobody would pay it any attention. It's yet another attempt to "do C right" and it makes some odd choices in the attempt.

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