The Go Team regrets defining the scope of the range variables as the for statement. I am not aware of any regrets regarding the alias issue. The range variable

The Go Team regrets defining the scope of the range variables as the for statement. I am not aware of any regrets regarding the alias issue. The range variable scope is the one big gotcha that's missing from the article. See http://golang.org/doc/faq#closures_and_goroutines http://golang.org/doc/faq#closures_and_goroutines for one discussion of the issue.