Understanding variable scope in Go

Question

I am going through the Go specification to learn the language, and these points are taken from the spec under Declarations and scope.

Though I am able t

Answer 1

They're making the same point, with the same rules, about two different things: the first is about variables and constants, the second is about type identifiers. So, if you declare a type inside a block, the same scoping rules apply as would apply to a variable declared at the same spot.