Awesome, thanks so much for the help here! Learned a lot from the input and code examples. :)
Much appreciated! On Thu, 2 Sep 2021, 15:49 Bryan C. Mills, <bcmi...@google.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:55 PM <sanyia.said...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Bryan, especially for the code example. >> >> >> Would using a sync.WaitGroup in place of the `done` channel in your >> example be overkill? Just exploring what’s possible here for my own >> education. >> > > Using a `sync.WaitGroup` in place of the `done` channel would be correct, > but perhaps less useful: it's about the same amount of code, but you can > `select` on the channel but not on the WaitGroup. > > (That said, a WaitGroup *would* avoid a pointer indirection: channels are > reference types, whereas WaitGroups are value types. That difference is the > motivation behind my proposal in https://golang.org/issue/28366.) > > -- 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/CAChppvka_ud8h%2BUba0z7qP2ANescD3QTh5HB-LJu4i1fydiLKQ%40mail.gmail.com.
