??? This is modern BSD (and probably plan9) style. Here's a line from the header: > Portions Copyright © 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved That's pret

??? This is modern BSD (and probably plan9) style. Here's a line from the header: > Portions Copyright © 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved That's pretty recent. And here's BSD style(9): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&sektion=9 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&sektion=9 The function type should be on a line by itself preceding the function.