I just learned about the stringer utility from Rob Pike's atricle about 
generate (https://blog.golang.org/generate).

I was wondering why the code generated by stringer has it's data in global 
variables (example from the article)

const _Pill_name = "PlaceboAspirinIbuprofenParacetamol"

var _Pill_index = [...]uint8{0, 7, 14, 23, 34}

instead of them being internal to the definition of

func (i Pill) String() string

The godoc for stringer (https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer) 
doesn't indicate that there are any other functions that these variables would 
be needed for and I think it would be cleaner to get them out of the global 
environment end encapsulate them to just where they're needed.

Am I missing something?

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