Uncaught ineffective assignment

[benma]

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    var i int
    i = 3
    i = 5
    fmt.Println(i)
}

$ ineffassign main.go does not produce any results. It should catch that the i = 3 assignment was ineffective (its value was never used).

I created the issue because I discovered an unchecked error in my code because of this pattern, i.e.:

err := someCall()
err = anotherCall()
if err != nil { ... }

[gordonklaus]

Thanks for pointing this out! I'll work up a fix.

[benma]

Excellent, thank you!