Is it possible to assign to a regular variable and slice in the same statement?

I’m making a chess game and I want to do a series of type assertions in the same var statement, then pass them to a function that handles it, but apparently, Go doesn’t allow me to assign to a regular variable and a slice index in the same statement:

// inside a function:
asserts := make([]bool, 0, 10)
assertionHandler := func(ok *[]bool) {
    for _, b := range *ok {
        if !b {
            msg := "pieceCliked: failed while trying to do type assertion\n%s\n\n"
            utils.LogPrintError(errors.New(fmt.Sprintf(msg, string(debug.Stack()))))
        }
    }
    *ok = make([]bool, 0, 10)
}

var (
    possibleSquares []string
    // The following results in a syntax error: expected type, found '='
    dataObject, asserts[0]  = data.(map[string]any) 
    playerData, asserts[1]  = dataObject["playerData"].(map[string]any)
    square, asserts[2]      = playerData["selectedPieceLocation"].(string)
    piece, asserts[3]       = playerData["selectedPiece"].(string)
    color, asserts[4]       = playerData["selectedPieceColor"].(string)
)
assertionHandler(asserts)

Is it possible to do what I’m trying to do?

>Solution :

Not the way you’re doing it, no. A var block defines new variables and their types, but you’re trying to assign to both new variables with no types (hence the error expected type) and elements of an existing slice within that block.

You could do:

var (
    possibleSquares []string
    dataObject map[string]any
    playerData map[string]any
    square string
    piece string
    color string
)

dataObject, asserts[0]  = data.(map[string]any) 
playerData, asserts[1]  = dataObject["playerData"].(map[string]any)
square, asserts[2]      = playerData["selectedPieceLocation"].(string)
piece, asserts[3]       = playerData["selectedPiece"].(string)
color, asserts[4]       = playerData["selectedPieceColor"].(string)