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0 pointskolpa8y ago0 comments

'go' is PAR with different syntax (Everything after the 'go' line is implicitly one branch of the PAR)

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Hmmm...as far as I understood the FA, the point is exactly that 'go' is unlike PAR in important respects.

'go' is more like a goto, the new goroutine is spawned, without any scoping. PAR opens a scope where all the contained routines are executed in parallel, but all of these must have terminated before the statement after the PAR is executed.

pdonis8y ago

> Everything after the 'go' line is implicitly one branch of the PAR

No, it isn't, because Go doesn't do the italicized part:

"Everything in a PAR block will run in parallel and all their outputs will be collected and fed as the input to the next SEQ."

zbobet20128y ago

That's correct apologies.

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