I was kind of just challenging the rhetorical question asked by stating the obvious as a question itself.
On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 3:54:01 PM UTC-4, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: > > 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 <ia...@golang.org > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 8:52 AM, <gop...@gardener.com <javascript:>> >> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> > 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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.
