Misleading error message

[fukanchik]

Go version

go version go1.18.1 linux/amd64

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

I think go env doesn't matter

What did you do?

Made a typo in a variable definition.

What did you see happen?

Misleading error message

./main.go:232:38: syntax error: unexpected status, expecting comma or )

At first I thought it was unexpected status within the compiler or somewhere else.

What did you expect to see?

A message similar to what, for example, gcc produces:

x.c:3:5: error: ‘status’ undeclared (first use in this function)

something like:

./main.go:232:38: syntax error: unexpected ‘status‘, expecting comma or )

[seankhliao]

we no longer support 1.18

[fukanchik]

@seankhliao What happened? Why are you so fast in closing the tickets?! go version in the description is there because the field is mandatory.
This issue exists in ALL versions of go.

[seankhliao]

in that case please show a reproducer for the issue on one of our supported versions of go.

[fukanchik]

Example which produces this in master branch:

package main

import (
        "fmt"
)

func main() {
        int status
        fmt.Println(status)
}

[seankhliao]

right, i've filed it as #65790