On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Brian Guthrie <btguth...@gmail.com> wrote:

> But I'm troubled by the idea of accepting channels as arguments, even
> though there's a lot to be said for consumer control of buffer sizes (to
> say nothing of providing potential fakes for test purposes). In that
> scenario you'd essentially be *mutating* the input when you set up the
> go-loop that feeds (or takes input from) the channel, yes? So in effect
> they become out-params.
>


Once you start messing around with channels, you're no longer in the
pure-functional business. Channels aren't values. Things which use channels
are processes, not functions.

-S

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