On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Brian Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 10:15 PM, Liigo Zhuang wrote: > >> People should rethink the Chan api that Chan::new() does not returns a >> value of type Chan (instead, a tuple), which is strange, and inconsistent >> with other Type::new(). >> >> > Agree, though I haven't heard any great suggestions yet. The core problem > is that there are three different entities involved: the sending end, the > recieving end, and the thing that represents the entire channel, and they > all need different names. The best I've heard is `pipe() -> (Port, Chan)`, > but I would rather call the whole thing a channel and have a different name > for the sender. > > A good alias / synonym for a "sender" would be a "transmitter". food for thought. -- -Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> Thad on LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/>
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