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		IonoclastBrig on May 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mill: Go-style concurrency in C I suppose "choose" was used for multiplexing channel reads to avoid clashing with select(2) (<sys/select.h>) on BSD/POSIX systems..?

rumcajz on May 1, 2015 [–]

Yep. Same way "case" and "default" cannot be used because they clash with C keywords. I was thinking of using "elect" initially, but that looks too much like a typo.

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