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// Package hello greets somebody by name.
package hello

import "strings"

// world is who is greeted when nobody was named. A greeting is the one thing
// that should never come out half-written, and "Hello, !" is what an empty
// name produces if it is passed straight through.
const world = "world"

// Greet returns a greeting for name.
//
// Surrounding whitespace is dropped, so a name that arrives from a form or a
// command line reads the same as one written by hand. A name that is empty, or
// only whitespace, is greeted as the world.
func Greet(name string) string {
	name = strings.TrimSpace(name)
	if name == "" {
		name = world
	}
	return "Hello, " + name + "!"
}