The global var should have been protected by a mutex, or loaded and saved
using sync/atomic functions, as it is accessed from multiple goroutines.
Another minor point:
Why do:
result := fmt.Sprintf("Hello there %s", i)
io.WriteString(w, result)
instead of just:
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello there %s", i)
On Friday, 5 January 2018 23:58:01 UTC, matthe...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Using a channel read in the http handler will block the ticker for loop
> until the read occurs, but if you want that then pass mc into the generic
> function: https://play.golang.org/p/GrHQxPhy1qu
>
> Using a buffered channel will keep the history of ticks and not block but
> may run out of buffer space if the handler isn't called enough.
>
> Amnon's global var should work if you are just looking for the current
> tick value.
>
> Matt
>
> On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 12:33:32 PM UTC-6, Amnon Baron Cohen wrote:
>>
>> try using a global var.
>> something like https://play.golang.org/p/05-xBDh5rgn
>>
>> On Thursday, 4 January 2018 15:09:41 UTC, Keith Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to Serve a webpage while running a ticker in the background.
>>> I am trying to generate a random number, genRandom() , periodically and
>>> publish it on a channel so generic() can see the results. I have something
>>> like this https://play.golang.org/p/6d1xmqpUYY7 but I don't know how to
>>> get channel results to generic()? Do I need to make my mc channel a global?
>>>
>>
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