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The [[OCaml]] event module offers typed channels for synchronization. When the module's send and receive functions are called, they create corresponding send and receive events which can be synchronized.

== Applications ==

In addition to their fundamental use for interprocess communication, channels can be used as a primitive to implement various other concurrent programming constructs which can be realized as streams. For example, channels can be used to construct [[futures and promises]], where a future is a one-element channel, and a promise is a process that sends to the channel, fulfilling the future.<ref>"[https://sites.google.com/site/gopatterns/concurrency/futures Futures]", ''[https://sites.google.com/site/gopatterns Go Language Patterns]''</ref> Similarly, [[iterator]]s can be constructed directly from channels.<ref>"[https://sites.google.com/site/gopatterns/object-oriented/iterators Iterators]", ''[https://sites.google.com/site/gopatterns Go Language Patterns]''</ref>

== References ==

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== External links ==

* [http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/libthread/channel.c – Libthread Channel Implementation]

* [http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/ Bell Labs and CSP Threads]