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+// Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Ugorji Nwoke. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a MIT license found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/*
+Package go is an empty holder package for go-codec.
+
+This doc.go is here just to support tools that have problems with empty packages.
+
+DO NOT USE THIS PACKAGE DIRECTLY.
+*/
+package go