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Redundant semicolon

Last modified: Last modified: 18 September 2025

Reports redundant semicolons. Idiomatic Go programs have semicolons only in places such as for loop clauses, to separate the initializer, condition, and continuation elements. They are also necessary to separate multiple statements on a line. In other cases, you can omit them.

For more information about semicolons in Go, refer to Semicolons at go.dev.

Example:

i := 1;

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.

GoRedundantSemicolon
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 | Declaration redundancy

Inspection ID: GoRedundantSemicolon

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:

note

Actual comment syntax will depend on the code language you are working with

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