> The case here is completely contrived; a red-herring. It's not like it's ever typical to do m, err := io.Read... and not use the `m` (if you were, you'd alrea

> The case here is completely contrived; a red-herring. It's not like it's ever typical to do m, err := io.Read... and not use the `m` (if you were, you'd already be writing _, err anyway). I've been doing some Go recently, and I ran into this exact problem (except the rhs was something else). Ignoring the output of a not-directly-related function while debugging is quite common, in my experience. Like some others here, it didn't rise for me to the level of ranting about it, but it's interesting to see that it's not just me, so I'm glad it did for someone. :)