diff --git a/pkg/go/transformer/dsltojson.go b/pkg/go/transformer/dsltojson.go
index 9207b77d..88bfdf5f 100644
--- a/pkg/go/transformer/dsltojson.go
+++ b/pkg/go/transformer/dsltojson.go
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ func (l *OpenFgaDslListener) ExitRelationDefTypeRestriction(ctx *parser.Relation
 }
 
 func (l *OpenFgaDslListener) ExitRelationDefRewrite(ctx *parser.RelationDefRewriteContext) {
-	partialRewrite := &pb.Userset{}
+	var partialRewrite *pb.Userset
 	computedUserset := &pb.ObjectRelation{
 		Relation: ctx.GetRewriteComputedusersetName().GetText(),
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/go/transformer/dsltojson_test.go b/pkg/go/transformer/dsltojson_test.go
index 4429bbca..a72e621b 100644
--- a/pkg/go/transformer/dsltojson_test.go
+++ b/pkg/go/transformer/dsltojson_test.go
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ func TestDSLToJSONTransformerForSyntaxErrorCases(t *testing.T) {
 				//  we care that it errors for syntax errors more than we care about the error messages matching,
 				//  esp. in Go as we are not building a language server on top of the returned errors yet
 				//  actual matching error strings is safe to ignore for now
-				//require.EqualErrorf(t, err, testCase.GetErrorString(), "")
+				// require.EqualErrorf(t, err, testCase.GetErrorString(), "")
 			}
 		})
 	}