Your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The problem is well described in Go FAQ. It is often surprising that comparing a typed interface nil to nil is not true.
Describe the solution you'd like.
I would like to propose to make a linter which warns if a function is returning a typed nil.
Describe alternatives you've considered.
There were many potential solutions proposed for Go 2 to address that, but it looks like it is hard to find a backward compatible solution here. But on the other hand, having a typed nil on purpose is a very rare case and something which might be a reasonable false positive for a linter.
Additional context.
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Your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The problem is well described in Go FAQ. It is often surprising that comparing a typed interface nil to nil is not true.
Describe the solution you'd like.
I would like to propose to make a linter which warns if a function is returning a typed nil.
Describe alternatives you've considered.
There were many potential solutions proposed for Go 2 to address that, but it looks like it is hard to find a backward compatible solution here. But on the other hand, having a typed nil on purpose is a very rare case and something which might be a reasonable false positive for a linter.
Additional context.
No response