This came up recently when I was trying to test some code that calls the stats package like this: eng.Add("foo", uint64(1)).

// test
handler := &statstest.Handler{}
eng := stats.NewEngine("test", handler)
runCode(eng)
assert.Equal(t, []stats.Measure{
{
 Name: "test.foo",
 Fields: []stats.Field{
 stats.MakeField("", 1, stats.Counter),
 },
 Tags: []stats.Tag{},
 }
}, handler.Measures())

This test failed with a cryptic error: assert.go:24: ! [0].Fields[0].Value.typ: 2 != 3.

The error was that my code is using uint, but the test is using an `int.

If the value type had a GoString method, the error could have been more obvious.