> you can assign it away via: _ = somevar If one suggested this in any other language to suppress "unused variable" warnings it would be considered a lazy way

> you can assign it away via: _ = somevar If one suggested this in any other language to suppress "unused variable" warnings it would be considered a lazy way to avoid fixing the issue. Meanwhile the developer of Zig himself recommended doing this[0] which only shows what a bad idea it is to make this a compiler error imho. It encourages workarounds and enforces something we automated long ago in the form of dead code elimination. [0] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335#issuecomment-435267965 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335#issuecomment-43526...