“variable declared and not used” compilation error

Question

I am learning Google\'s new language Go. I am just trying stuff out and I noticed that if you declare a variable and do not do anything with it the go compiler (8g

Answer 1

You could try this:

cwd, _ := os.Getwd();

but it seems like it would be better to keep the error like in Jurily's answer so you know if something went wrong.