This happened to me more than once, and not only with errors. For a function that is declared to return an interface, if you return a nil-pointer with a type other than that interface, the returned interface is not nil.
Here's an example: https://play.golang.org/p/dpd76zyN9Fv I think go vet should warn about this case. What do you think? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAMV2RqrpdCa4t6VrBrkbU%3DrbdNhC_oz%2BusTD9PA6VgCb%3D2SXJw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
