cmd/compile: avoid "not used" errors due to bad go/defer statements

The syntax for go and defer specifies an arbitrary expression, not
a call; the call requirement is spelled out in prose. Don't to the
call check in the parser; instead move it to the type checker. This
is simpler and also allows the type checker to check expressions that
are not calls, and avoid "not used" errors due to such expressions.

We would like to make the same change in go/parser and go/types
but the change requires Go/DeferStmt nodes to hold an ast.Expr
rather than an *ast.CallExpr. We cannot change that for backward-
compatibility reasons. Since we don't test this behavior for the
type checkers alone (only for the compiler), we get away with it
for now.

Follow-up on CL 425675 which introduced the extra errors in the
first place.

Change-Id: I90890b3079d249bdeeb76d5673246ba44bec1a7b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/425794
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Robert Griesemer <gri@google.com>
Auto-Submit: Robert Griesemer <gri@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/src/cmd/compile/internal/syntax/parser.go b/src/cmd/compile/internal/syntax/parser.go
index d86fe1b72e..8ba72fe7cf 100644
--- a/src/cmd/compile/internal/syntax/parser.go
+++ b/src/cmd/compile/internal/syntax/parser.go
@@ -953,20 +953,6 @@ func (p *parser) callStmt() *CallStmt {
 		x = t
 	}
 
-	// TODO(gri) Now that we don't store a CallExpr in a CallStmt anymore
-	//           we might as well leave this check to the type checker.
-	//           Adjust this here and in go/parser eventually.
-	if _, ok := x.(*CallExpr); !ok {
-		// only report an error if it's a new one
-		if bad, ok := x.(*BadExpr); !ok {
-			p.errorAt(x.Pos(), fmt.Sprintf("expression in %s must be function call", s.Tok))
-			// already progressed, no need to advance
-			bad = new(BadExpr)
-			bad.pos = x.Pos()
-			x = bad
-		}
-	}
-
 	s.Call = x
 	return s
 }