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Comment by kbolino

7 months ago

If you have a value type, you don't need to implement Is. It's just that errors.New (and fmt.Errorf) doesn't return a value type, so such errors only match under errors.Is if they have the same identity, hence why you typically see them defined with package-level sentinel variables.

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