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.

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