close

You don’t need to close channel after using it, and it can be recycled automatically by the garbage collector. The following quote is from The Go Programming Language: You needn’t close every channel when you’ve finished with it. It’s only necessary to close a channel when it is important to tell the receiving goroutines that all data have been sent. A channel that the garbage collector determines to be unreachable will have its resources reclaimed whether or not it is closed. [Read More]

The zero value of channel type is nil, and the send and receive operations on a nil channel will always block. Check the following example: package main import "fmt" func main() { var ch chan int go func(c chan int) { for v := range c { fmt.Println(v) } }(ch) ch <- 1 } The running result is like this: fatal error: all goroutines are asleep - deadlock! goroutine 1 [chan send (nil chan)]: main. [Read More]