Use short variable declarations (:=) for variables with default values

Why you should care

Short variable declarations (:=) should be used if a variable is being set to some value explicitly.

How we detect

CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time a local variable (:= operator is not allowed for global variables) is declared with var statement and is initialized with a default value.

Note : do not consider variables declared with const.

 

// bad
var s = "foo"
 
// good
s := "foo"
const (
	idIP0   = 4 // ip address start index
	idDmLen = 4 // domain address length index
)
 
const toto := 3

References

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