now panic if the <code>padding</code> argument is a negative value other than
      <code>NoPadding</code>.
    </p>
  </dd>
</dl><!-- encoding -->

<dl id="encoding/json"><dt><a href="/pkg/encoding/json/">encoding/json</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- https://go.dev/cl/521675 -->
      Marshaling and encoding functionality now escapes
      <code>'\b'</code> and <code>'\f'</code> characters as