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Clarify parsing of channel types.

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CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/194091
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Robert Griesemer 2010-01-27 09:35:39 -08:00
parent 2a01d72878
commit 1c369bd55f

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@ -1107,6 +1107,19 @@ SendChannel = "chan" "<-" ElementType .
RecvChannel = "<-" "chan" ElementType .
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To avoid a parsing ambiguity in cases such as <code>chan&lt;- chan int</code>,
the Channel production's ElementType cannot be a RecvChannel.
To construct such a type, parenthesize the RecvChannel first.
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<pre>
chan&lt;- chan int // same as chan&lt;- (chan int)
chan&lt;- &lt;-chan int // same as chan&lt;- (&lt;-chan int)
&lt;-chan &lt;-chan int // same as &lt;-chan (&lt;-chan int)
chan (&lt;-chan int)
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<p>
Upon creation, a channel can be used both to send and to receive values.
By conversion or assignment, a channel may be constrained only to send or
@ -1126,7 +1139,6 @@ value can be made using the built-in function <code>make</code>,
which takes the channel type and an optional capacity as arguments:
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<pre>
make(chan int, 100)
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