Sure. It's an easy problem to fix, now that the team is aware it. I'm pretty sure they'll solve it for Go 2. In the meantime, it would break the compatibility promise, so it's just a kludge we have to live with.

I basically just wanted to point out that the problem isn't so much an implementation question (or about performance). But that no one thought of it and it's now mainly a question of how to best phrase the spec for this :)