> > > And not only that, it's complicated. The language spec is not the > right place to dig into the complexities of how to use select safely > while avoiding race conditions. There is just too much to say. And > there are no docs for select other than the language spec. > > Well here's the real problem. This should be in the docs for select, and not in the language spec. A language spec defines the rules, and doesn't talk much about their consequences or usage of the features. So I agree it can't go into the language spec, but I don't think the solution is to banish this kind of thing from the official documentation either.
First step's first, we'd need something like a practitioner's handbook, or Go programming guidelines where the select feature is discussed before we could add this to the docs. I think that's worthwhile, but not my fight. I'll relegate this to a blog post instead. Cheers, Dan -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/9ef49f11-38cf-413e-b23c-95f8b4244e91%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
