Prior Discussion

Background

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Asked Questions & Prior Discussion

Panics on sends or closes of closed channel

See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11344#issuecomment-117862884

Thread-local, Goroutine-local storage

TODO

Make unused imports/variables a warning, not an error

Rejected.

Add warnings to the Go compiler

Experience in large projects has shown that warnings pile up until people ignore all warnings, so warnings only add noise and no value (or are actively harmful in that they hide bugs). See https://go.dev/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_imports

Weak references

Unlikely to be added. See discussion at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/PYWxjT2v6ps, and https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!topic/golang-nuts/MMWXRANh0-g which points out that sync.Pool is a specific form of weak reference.

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Prior Discussion

Background

Asked Questions & Prior Discussion

Panics on sends or closes of closed channel

Thread-local, Goroutine-local storage

Add explicit int-to-bool conversions

Add mechanism to silence vet warnings

Add vet warning for unused function arguments

Make go get more verbose / add a progress bar

Shorten error handling / return sugar

Support symlinks in go toolchain / environment variables

Make unused imports/variables a warning, not an error

Add warnings to the Go compiler

Weak references