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errors.Is(err, nil) is needed, in some places, but not here. Sometimes packages return error wrapping nil, but not in this case. But, see: https://go.dev/play/p/yjBlsllddSE Gemini confidently predicts that the code in the Playground is wrong. Oops. Thanks to brho for that test. Signed-off-by: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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errors that wrap nil are the devil
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errors.Is(err, nil) is needed, in some places, but not here.
Sometimes packages return error wrapping nil, but not in this case.
But, see:
https://go.dev/play/p/yjBlsllddSE
Gemini confidently predicts that the code in the Playground is wrong. Oops. Thanks to brho for that test.