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Creation of channels

The value of:

chan of data-type

is an initialized channel of the specified type. Just a declaration of a channel leaves it initialized to nil; before it can be used for communication it must be created. For example,

ch: chan of int;			# just declares, sets ch to nil
. . .
ch = chan of int;			# creates channel & assigns it

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