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+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/*
+Gofmt formats Go programs.
+
+Without an explicit path, it processes the standard input.  Given a file,
+it operates on that file; given a directory, it operates on all .go files in
+that directory, recursively.  (Files starting with a period are ignored.)
+By default, gofmt prints the reformatted sources to standard output.
+
+Usage:
+	gofmt [flags] [path ...]
+
+The flags are:
+	-d
+		Do not print reformatted sources to standard output.
+		If a file's formatting is different than gofmt's, print diffs
+		to standard output.
+	-e
+		Print all (including spurious) errors.
+	-l
+		Do not print reformatted sources to standard output.
+		If a file's formatting is different from gofmt's, print its name
+		to standard output.
+	-r rule
+		Apply the rewrite rule to the source before reformatting.
+	-s
+		Try to simplify code (after applying the rewrite rule, if any).
+	-w
+		Do not print reformatted sources to standard output.
+		If a file's formatting is different from gofmt's, overwrite it
+		with gofmt's version.
+
+Formatting control flags:
+	-comments=true
+		Print comments; if false, all comments are elided from the output.
+	-spaces
+		Align with spaces instead of tabs.
+	-tabindent
+		Indent with tabs independent of -spaces.
+	-tabwidth=8
+		Tab width in spaces.
+
+
+The rewrite rule specified with the -r flag must be a string of the form:
+
+	pattern -> replacement
+
+Both pattern and replacement must be valid Go expressions.
+In the pattern, single-character lowercase identifiers serve as
+wildcards matching arbitrary sub-expressions; those expressions
+will be substituted for the same identifiers in the replacement.
+
+
+Examples
+
+To check files for unnecessary parentheses:
+
+	gofmt -r '(a) -> a' -l *.go
+
+To remove the parentheses:
+
+	gofmt -r '(a) -> a' -w *.go
+
+To convert the package tree from explicit slice upper bounds to implicit ones:
+
+	gofmt -r 'α[β:len(α)] -> α[β:]' -w $GOROOT/src/pkg
+*/
+package documentation
+
+// BUG(rsc): The implementation of -r is a bit slow.