Finding Unreachable Go Code
Explore methods to identify unreachable code in Go using tools like go vet and staticcheck. Understand how these tools detect logical errors that avoid compiler detection, helping you improve code quality and debugging efficiency.
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Sometimes, a wrongly implemented if or a misplaced return statement can create blocks of code that are unreachable, that is, blocks of code that are not going to be executed at all. Because this is a logical kind of error, which means that it is not going to get caught by the compiler, we need to find a way of discovering it.