On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 22:05 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> > Furthermore, IMHO "release" is better at communicating the
> > per-interpreter nature than "close".
>
> Channels are a similar enough concept to pipes that I think
> it would be confusing to have "close" mean "close for all
> interpreters". Everyone understands that "closing" a pipe
> only means you're closing your reference to one end of it,
> and they will probably assume closing a channel means the
> same.
>

FWIW, I'd compare channels more closely to queues than to pipes.

-eric
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