What Ian said, plus select is awkward to implement as a library, but works quite well when its syntax is analogous to switch.
-rob On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 8:52 AM, <gop...@gardener.com> wrote: > > so why are channels and goroutines built into the language proper? > > Channels and goroutines are widely used. Go does not follow a strict > principle of putting everything in a library. That said, ultimately > these things boil down to matters of taste, in this case the taste of > the original language designers. > > Ian > > > On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 9:42:17 AM UTC-4, adon...@google.com > wrote: > >> > >> On Sunday, 16 October 2016 08:40:32 UTC-4, Sokolov Yura wrote: > >>> > >>> "future" is commonly used synchronization abstraction. > >>> > >>> It could be implemented in a library, using mutex, channel and > interface. > >>> Example: > >>> https://github.com/Workiva/go-datastructures/blob/master/ > futures/selectable.go > >> > >> > >> If it can be implemented as a library, why build it in to the language? > >> You don't need futures very often---far less than, say, Mutex, and > mutexes > >> aren't built into the language either. > >> > > -- > > 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. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
