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Buffered Channels

Buffered Channels

This lesson will introduce you to a type of channels known as Buffered Channels.

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If you were able to understand the previous lesson, you should be more clear on the code provided in the lesson on deadlocks.

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package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
	mychannel := make(chan int)
	mychannel <- 10
	fmt.Println(<-mychannel)
}

Now you’ll be fully clear on why the above code didn’t work. This is because of the sending and receiving operations which are blocking the code. When we wrap one of them in a goroutine such that they are ready to unblock each other, the program executes successfully. ...