There's some history behind this. You can read some of it from Russ Cox, one of the Go authors. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nuts

There's some history behind this. You can read some of it from Russ Cox, one of the Go authors. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nuts/6d1maef4jQ8 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nu... http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html Edit: missed another good one. There's a lot of discussion about this on the mailing list. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nuts/GNLTUTFNNl0 https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nu...