“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

this can make development a bit of a pain. sometimes i run code that has variables declared but not used (but will be used).

in these cases i simple do this:

fmt.Printf("%v %v %v",somevar1,somevar2,somevar3)

and there, they are "used".

i'd like to see a flag to the go tools that lets me suppress this error while developing.