Question

I like having a little visual separation of the type names from the variables in Go.
I’ve been playing with the following:

var target (int64) = 600851475143
var largest (int64) = 0
var i (int64)

So far it compiles correctly and I don’t see any difference in the result of my program run.

Is this dangerous? Is there any semantic difference between the above and the below?

var target int64 = 600851475143
var largest int64 = 0
var i int64

Thanks

Answer 1

There is no semantic difference but you may find yourself fighting against go fmt so I’m thinking it’s not worth it.