PriorDiscussion.md

Prior Discussion

Background

This page links to prior discussion on various topics.

The page complements the official FAQ. While the official FAQ contains things which are frequently asked and contains answers, this page contains things that have been repeatedly asked, but maybe not frequently, and only needs to link to one or more previous threads. Over time, these entries may graduate to entries in the official FAQ.

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Asked Questions & Prior Discussion

Panics on sends or closes of closed channel

See golang/go#11344 (comment)

Thread-local, Goroutine-local storage

TODO

Add explicit int-to-bool conversions

Rejected, see golang/go#9367 (comment)

Add mechanism to silence vet warnings

Rejected, see discussion in golang/go#17058

Add vet warning for unused function arguments

Rejected, see golang/go#7892 (comment)

Make go get more verbose / add a progress bar

Rejected, see golang/go#17959 golang/go#18388 (comment)

Shorten error handling / return sugar

Rejected, see golang/go#16225

Support symlinks in go toolchain / environment variables

Rejected, see golang/go#15507

Make unused imports/variables a warning, not an error

Rejected.

Add warnings to the Go compiler

Rejected.

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.