Comment by Arcaire

This was linked previously, and the single comment therein linked to a discussion on reddit[0] about the issue.

Of note, this change has been reverted now[1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5alxa3/gos_alias_pr...

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16339#issuecomment-25852...