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== Examples ==
=== Lua Love2D ===
The [[Löve (game engine)|Love2D]] library which is part of the [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] programming language implements channels with push and pop operations similar to stacks. The pop operation will block so as long as there is data resident on the stack. A demand operation is equivalent to pop, except it will block until there is data on the stack<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
-- A string containing code which will be intereprted by a function such as loadstring(),
-- but on the C side to start a native thread.
local threadCode = [[
love.thread.getChannel("test"):push("Hello world!")
]]
function love.load()
-- Start the thread.
thread = love.thread.newThread(threadCode)
thread:start()
-- The thread will block until "Hello world!" is popped off channel test's stack.
-- Because the channel can be popped from before the thread first executes, there may not be data on the stack.
-- in that case use :demand() instead of :pop() because :demand() will block until there is data on the stack and then return the data.
print(love.thread.getChannel("test"):demand())
-- The thread can now finish.
end
</syntaxhighlight>
=== XMOS XC ===
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