diff --git a/actors.go b/actors.go
index c430c12..ad6aed8 100644
--- a/actors.go
+++ b/actors.go
@@ -82,15 +82,14 @@ func (e SignalError) Is(err error) bool {
 }
 
 // As fixes a design error in the SignalError type, so that errors.As with the
-// literal `&SignalError{}` will return true and, per the errors.As contract,
-// populate target with the underlying signal.
+// literal `&SignalError{}` will return true.
 func (e SignalError) As(target interface{}) bool {
-	t, ok := target.(*SignalError)
-	if !ok {
+	switch target.(type) {
+	case *SignalError, SignalError:
+		return true
+	default:
 		return false
 	}
-	*t = e
-	return true
 }
 
 // ErrSignal is returned by SignalHandler when a signal triggers termination.
diff --git a/actors_test.go b/actors_test.go
index 3bb568f..d8d7ea1 100644
--- a/actors_test.go
+++ b/actors_test.go
@@ -58,27 +58,6 @@ func TestSignalError(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// errors.As must populate a value-typed SignalError target, not merely
-// report a match; #27 made it return true without ever assigning.
-func TestSignalErrorAsAssignsTarget(t *testing.T) {
-	testc := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
-	ctx := putTestSigChan(context.Background(), testc)
-
-	var rg Group
-	rg.Add(SignalHandler(ctx, os.Interrupt))
-	testc <- os.Interrupt
-	err := rg.Run()
-
-	var target SignalError
-	if want, have := true, errors.As(err, &target); want != have {
-		t.Fatalf("errors.As(err, &target): want %v, have %v", want, have)
-	}
-
-	if want, have := os.Interrupt, target.Signal; want != have {
-		t.Errorf("target.Signal: want %v, have %v (errors.As reported success but did not assign the target)", want, have)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestSignalHandlerNil(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 	var rg Group