Radar · Go · Archive · Week 38 · Sep 14 – 20, 2026
go/types: add Scope.Elements iterator
Worth knowingstdlib
- What changed
- The
Scopetype now has anObjects() iter.Seq[Object]method that returns an iterator over the objects in a scope in name order. - Production impact
- The source does not say.
- Try it
- Iterate over a
types.Scopewithfor obj := range scope.Objects() { … }. - Source
- github.com/golang/go/issues/80449
Understand it, then run it
Run it now
// This program demonstrates how to iterate over the objects in a
// types.Scope in Go 1.27.1, where the proposed Objects() iterator
// is not yet available. It parses a small Go source file, builds
// its type information, and then walks the package scope printing
// each object's name and kind.
//
// In a future release that includes the change, the loop could be
// simplified to:
// for obj := range pkg.Scope().Objects() { ... }
package main
import (
"fmt"
"go/ast"
"go/parser"
"go/token"
"go/types"
)
func main() {
// Create a file set and parse a tiny Go source snippet.
fset := token.NewFileSet()
src := `package main
func foo() {}
var x int`
file, err := parser.ParseFile(fset, "example.go", src, 0)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// Set up type checking for the file.
conf := types.Config{Importer: nil}
info := &types.Info{Defs: make(map[*ast.Ident]types.Object)}
pkg, err := conf.Check("example", fset, []*ast.File{file}, info)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// Iterate over the package scope using the existing API.
s := pkg.Scope()
for _, name := range s.Names() {
obj := s.Lookup(name)
fmt.Printf("%s: %s\n", name, obj.Type())
}
}
What it printed when we ran it on Go 1.27.1
foo: func() x: int
Run sends this program (for Solidity, the contract and its tests) to our own sandbox, where it is compiled and run once, with no network, and what it printed or the test report comes back here. Nothing is kept. Runs are counted per visitor for the day so everyone gets a turn; the details are on the legal page.
Written by gpt-oss-20b from the linked source · claims checked against the sources · archive, not individually reviewed