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Redundant 'true' in for loop condition

Reports the redundant true literal in the for loop condition.

In Go, the for loop has a form with an implicit condition. It means that you can create an infinite loop by writing for { }. Therefore, in cases with the true condition (for true { }), true is considered redundant and might be omitted.

For more information about the for loop in Go, refer to For at go.dev.

Example:

for true { println("ping") }

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.

GoRedundantTrueInForCondition
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: GoRedundantTrueInForCondition

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 GoRedundantTrueInForCondition

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