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+// Copyright 2010 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.
+
+/*
+
+Vet examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs, such as Printf
+calls whose arguments do not align with the format string. Vet uses heuristics
+that do not guarantee all reports are genuine problems, but it can find errors
+not caught by the compilers.
+
+Available checks:
+
+1. Printf family
+
+Suspicious calls to functions in the Printf family, including any functions
+with these names:
+	Print Printf Println
+	Fprint Fprintf Fprintln
+	Sprint Sprintf Sprintln
+	Error Errorf
+	Fatal Fatalf
+	Panic Panicf Panicln
+If the function name ends with an 'f', the function is assumed to take
+a format descriptor string in the manner of fmt.Printf. If not, vet
+complains about arguments that look like format descriptor strings.
+
+It also checks for errors such as using a Writer as the first argument of
+Printf.
+
+2. Methods
+
+Non-standard signatures for methods with familiar names, including:
+	Format GobEncode GobDecode MarshalJSON MarshalXML
+	Peek ReadByte ReadFrom ReadRune Scan Seek 
+	UnmarshalJSON UnreadByte UnreadRune WriteByte
+	WriteTo
+
+3. Struct tags
+
+Struct tags that do not follow the format understood by reflect.StructTag.Get.
+
+Usage:
+
+	go tool vet [flag] [file.go ...]
+	go tool vet [flag] [directory ...] # Scan all .go files under directory, recursively
+
+The flags are:
+	-v
+		Verbose mode
+	-printfuncs
+		A comma-separated list of print-like functions to supplement
+		the standard list.  Each entry is in the form Name:N where N
+		is the zero-based argument position of the first argument
+		involved in the print: either the format or the first print
+		argument for non-formatted prints.  For example,
+		if you have Warn and Warnf functions that take an
+		io.Writer as their first argument, like Fprintf,
+			-printfuncs=Warn:1,Warnf:1
+
+*/
+package documentation