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

type Person struct {
	Name    string
	Address *struct {
		Street string
		City   string
	}
}

var data *struct {
	Name    string `json:"name"`
	Address *struct {
		Street string `json:"street"`
		City   string `json:"city"`
	} `json:"address"`
}

var person = (*Person)(data)  // ignoring tags, the underlying types are identical
</pre>

<p>

type Person struct {
	Name    string
	Address *struct {
		Street string
		City   string
	}
}

var data *struct {
	Name    string `json:"name"`
	Address *struct {
		Street string `json:"street"`
		City   string `json:"city"`
	} `json:"address"`
}

var person = (*Person)(data)  // ignoring tags, the underlying types are identical
</pre>

<p>