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Name starts with a package name

Reports exported names that start with a package name. This inspection does not report such names in the main package.

Example:

package myPackage func MyPackageGetIP() { }

The MyPackageGetIP name will be highlighted as it starts with the package name.

According to Package Names at github.com/golang, all references to names in a package will be done using the package name, so one can omit that name from the identifiers. For example, if you are in a package foo, you do not need a type FooFile, which clients will write as foo.FooFile. Instead, we name the type File, which clients will write as foo.File.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoNameStartsWithPackageName
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | Code style issues

Inspection ID: GoNameStartsWithPackageName

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoNameStartsWithPackageName

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

GoLand 2025.2, Qodana for Go 2025.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

Go, 252.26654.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025