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cmd/compile, go/types, types2: rename 'imported and not used' error to 'imported but not used'

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#47,089 opened on Jul 7, 2021

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Description

Commit 449b6ab has reworded, in Go 1.14, the "declared and not used" error message as "declared but not used". I propose to do the same for the "imported and not used" error message.

If an imported package is not used, instead of

imported and not used: "fmt"

the error message would be

imported but not used: "fmt"

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Find the error message 'imported and not used' in the source code and replace it with 'imported but not used'.
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go
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