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Ping.

We could use the argument "-" as a standin for standard input, that's pretty standard.
I stand by that statement.

Glad you're not being standoffish. I'll make a standalone CL we can look at. And if folks don't like it, I'll understand.

@josharian Which places in the Go tree are you referring to? (I believe they exist, just none come to mind off hand.)

/dev/stdin is the name I prefer for standard input. On Unix systems, the existence of that file (which I introduced oh so long ago for just this reason) means that no special per-command code is required. Everything just works.

I never liked the "-" hack.

That's a fine name also, but the special case code is still necessary because not all systems we run on have /dev/stdin.

go run is just going to have to write the temp file. I don't think this is worth fixing. This is one step away from #!/bin/go, which we don't want to encourage as a way to write Go programs.