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Reserved word used as name

Reports declarations of variables, arguments or functions that overlap with the built-in or reserved keyword.

If you receive this error then your code might not be as explicit as possible and might confuse other users.

Example:

type byte struct{} type string interface{}

Types byte and string collide with the built-in type aliases. Therefore, they will be highlighted. Consider renaming such declarations.

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.

GoReservedWordUsedAsName
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 | Probable bugs

Inspection ID: GoReservedWordUsedAsName

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 GoReservedWordUsedAsName

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