The documentation for >!! reads:

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clojure.core.async/>!!
([port val])
  puts a val into port. nil values are not allowed. Will block if no
  buffer space is available. Returns true unless port is already closed.


I have a case where I believe that the channel has no buffer, I park a 
"pseudothread" in a go block reading off that channel via <!, and then 
(lexically, not temporally), put to the unbuffered channel via >!!:

(let [c (chan) ;; NO BUFFER!
      d (go (<! c)) ;; park a pseudothread to read c
      e (>!! c 42)] ;; blocking write to c, will unpark c's pseudothread
    (println {:c-coughs-up '(this will hang (<!! c)),
              :d-coughs-up (<!! d),
              :what's-e    e})
    (close! c) (close! d))

{:c-coughs-up (this will hang (<!! c)), :d-coughs-up 42, :what's-e true}


This case leads me to wonder whether the documentation might read

 >!! will block if there is no buffer space available *and* if there is no 
*rendezvous *available, that is, no pseudothread parked waiting for <!.

but it's more likely that I completely misunderstand core.async because I 
just made up the notion of a pseudothread in my struggle to understand!



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