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pcwalton on April 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Leaving Go

You can write that in C though.

    typedef int foo;

    foo main() {
        foo foo = 0;
        return foo;
    }

tptacek on April 28, 2014 [–]

You can do the same thing in Golang by renaming the import that clashes with your preferred variable name. Nobody does it, though, because it's not worth the trouble.

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