Converting a custom type to string in Go

Question

In this bizarre example, someone has created a new type which is really just a string:

type CustomType string

const (
        Foobar CustomType = "somestring"
)

func SomeFunction() string {
        return Foobar
}

However, this code fails to compile:

cannot use Foobar (type CustomType) as type string in return argument

How would you fix SomeFunction so that it is able to return the string value of Foobar ("somestring") ?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45891600/converting-a-custom-type-to-string-in-go

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