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Mu. Russ Cox quote indicates that the maintainers of goimports and gorename do not need to handle formatting at all (and hence, benefit). The go team put that wholly in the gofmt team's court. Otherwise, the go team would likely have to handle tickets about how the formatting of goimports and gorename differ over time for edge cases (if only by paying the social capital of ignoring the tickets).


That would fall under what I already assumed to be true, and also under an umbrella they specifically said it wasnt about

> end debates among team members about program layout

(Except in this case of course it's not "team members")

I'm definitely not getting this interpretation from the quote.




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