[andrewpolidori]

True, but there are times when doing some analyzes or refactoring that what one wants to operate on is go source directly, so the output of gofmt is easier and standardized and doesn't require handling the ast at all.

[ammar2]

Can you give an example of such a tool that analyzes/refactors just the text output of gofmt?

It seems like that approach that would be fraught with errors considering how lenient gofmt can be at times but maybe it would be okay for simple stuff. e.g all of these ways of invoking methods:

   fmt.
           Println("Hello ",
                   "World",
           )

  fmt.Println("Hello ",
          "World")

  fmt.Println("Hello ", "World")