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The Day the Linter Broke My Code

The Day the Linter Broke My Code

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·September 15, 2025
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ecnahc515

If the the OP is the author, did consider filing a bug with errcheck? It should be possible for errcheck to check if the comparison is being done within an `Is(err error) bool` method and skip the warning in that case, or even better: it could check if your using `errors.Is` within an `Is` method and warn in that case!

cronelius

Isn't this what Unwrap() is for? errors.Is calls Unwrap if it's available and then compares _that_ error.

eik

Having looked at the problems that can arise with errors.As:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44959638

Let's now look at how errors.Is can introduce subtle bugs that can affect the reliability of error checking, especially when trying to determine the root cause of an error.

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