By spec, the two ints are both the declared variable.

It is true that this error message is a bit confusing.

Maybe an error message like this would be better:

/prog.go:7:9: int is not a valid variable name

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@seankhliao Maybe it is a bit soon to close this as a question? The error message really seems confusing, and I think that for Go it always has been a point of pride to provide clear error messages. Certainly in this case the message could be improved.

int is a valid variable name, but declaring it as a variable precludes shadows the its predeclared definition as a type.
eg: var int bool is valid.
The character offset 9 points to that.

Duplicate of #20219

Well, seeing the discussion in the liked issue i guess it is hard to improve the message. I will let it pass.