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		wbl on Nov 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022) https://pkg.go.dev/errors#Is and https://pkg.go.dev/fmt#Errorf clearly state that there is a way to match these errors if the package exposes the values, which the stdlib does.

Yoric on Nov 27, 2024 | [–]

Which only works when the error itself doesn't contain any information.

It's better than nothing, of course.

the_gipsy on Nov 27, 2024 | [–]

Ah okay, it seems to work because errors are pointers, and errors.Is just checks for equality.

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