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 ## Reading Empty Deque
 
-Since it is OK for the deque to contain a nil value, it is necessary to either panic or return a second boolean value to indicate the deque is empty, when reading or removing an element.  This deque panics when reading from an empty deque.  This is a run-time check to help catch programming errors, which may be missed if a second return value is ignored.  Simply check Deque.Len() before reading from the deque.
+Since it is OK for the deque to contain a `nil` value, it is necessary to either panic or return a second boolean value to indicate the deque is empty, when reading or removing an element.  This deque panics when reading from an empty deque.  This is a run-time check to help catch programming errors, which may be missed if a second return value is ignored.  Simply check `Deque.Len()` before reading from the deque.
 
 ## Example