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Date: Thu,  3 Apr 2014 08:20:18 +0200
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From: David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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> why is the alternative to modify plan 9, and why can't they
> live with the system fmt/rune routines?

They are incompatible. For example, some Fmt verbs (like %F) does produce
slightly different output. It was an explicit requirement from the Go team
to use their variants of these libraries.

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<p dir="ltr">&gt; why is the alternative to modify plan 9, and why can&#39;t they<br>
&gt; live with the system fmt/rune routines?</p>
<p dir="ltr">They are incompatible. For example, some Fmt verbs (like %F) does produce slightly different output. It was an explicit requirement from the Go team to use their variants of these libraries.</p>
<p dir="ltr">-- <br>
David du Colombier</p>

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