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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm having a hard time envisioning a situation where testing my code requires a bunch of unused variables. Just don't declare the variables until you've started writing the code that uses them...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the time you don't write the code, you change it.

I had tons of situations where I wanted to test deleting a code block which just happened to use an imported library, which the compiler is now complaining about because it's no longer being used.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If that’s the problem, then I would just use something like goimports to auto fix the imports every time I hit save. I never even see those errors so they don’t bother me.