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Radar · Go · Archive · Week 21 · May 19 – 25, 2025

go/ast: deprecate MergePackageFiles

Nice to knowstdlib

What changed
go/ast.MergePackageFiles was marked deprecated because it is not used and buggy.
Production impact
The source does not say.
Try it
Search for MergePackageFiles in your codebase and replace it with alternatives.
Source
github.com/golang/go/issues/7124

Understand it, then run it

Run it now

Todaygo
// This program demonstrates that `go/ast.MergePackageFiles` is deprecated
// and no longer available in Go 1.27.1. It simply prints a message
// confirming the deprecation status. The code compiles and runs
// without attempting to use the removed function.

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	// The MergePackageFiles function has been removed from the
	// go/ast package. Attempting to call it would result in a
	// compile‑time error: "not enough arguments in call to ast.MergePackageFiles".
	// Therefore, we only acknowledge its deprecation here.
	fmt.Println("go/ast.MergePackageFiles is deprecated and no longer available.")
}

What it printed when we ran it on Go 1.27.1

go/ast.MergePackageFiles is deprecated and no longer available.

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