cmd/gc: do not display ~b identifiers in error messages

Instead of errors like:

./blank2.go:15: cannot use ~b1 (type []int) as type int in assignment

we now have:

./blank2.go:15: cannot use _ (type []int) as type int in assignment

Less confusing for users.

Fixes #9521

Change-Id: Ieab9859040e8e0df95deeaee7eeb408d3be61c0f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/9902
Reviewed-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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Didier Spezia 2015-05-09 17:21:42 +00:00 committed by Ian Lance Taylor
parent 3475ec7f36
commit 7c0db1b7e2
2 changed files with 17 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ func exprfmt(n *Node, prec int) string {
// Special case: name used as local variable in export.
// _ becomes ~b%d internally; print as _ for export
case ONAME:
if fmtmode == FExp && n.Sym != nil && n.Sym.Name[0] == '~' && n.Sym.Name[1] == 'b' {
if (fmtmode == FExp || fmtmode == FErr) && n.Sym != nil && n.Sym.Name[0] == '~' && n.Sym.Name[1] == 'b' {
return "_"
}
if fmtmode == FExp && n.Sym != nil && !isblank(n) && n.Vargen > 0 {

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@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
// errorcheck
// Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// Test that an incorrect use of the blank identifer is caught.
// Does not compile.
package main
func f() (_, _ []int) { return }
func main() {
_ = append(f()) // ERROR "cannot use _"
}