>Golang will not let you compile if there’s an import or declared variable that’s unused. OK, I understand that Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness, but this is se

>Golang will not let you compile if there’s an import or declared variable that’s unused. OK, I understand that Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness, but this is seriously slowing me down; probably a third of my attempts to run my damn program fail because I’ve forgotten to remove debugging apparatus, or I’ve sketched in a variable but not used it yet. How about a compiler switch or something? I don't find this an issue with vim using syntastic. When I save, I get notified in the gutter of issues like this and then I can use the official go vim support to do things like :Drop to remove the import without even navigating to the imports section. Syntastic picks up on most issues before you even think of compiling. >There doesn’t seem to be a way to declare a constant array, what in a Java class I’d call final static String[] COLS = {"Red", "Blue"}; Constants in Go are evaluated at compile time and arrays don't exist at compile time. You can manage at the package level by using a unexported variable then exporting a function that returns it.