package main

// Closing a channel indicates that no more values will be sent on
// it. This can be useful to communicate completion to the channel's
// receivers.

import "fmt"

func main() {
	// use a jobs channel to communicate work to be done from
	// goroutine to a worker goroutine.
	// When we have no more jobs for the worker we'll close the jobs channel
	jobs := make(chan int, 5)
	done := make(chan bool)

	// Here's the worker goroutine.
	// It repeatedly receives from jobs with j, more := <- jobs.
	// In this special 2-value form of receive, the more value will
	// be false if jobs has been closed and all values in the channel
	// have already been received. We use this to notify on done when
	// we've worked all our jobs.
	go func() {
		for {
			j, more := <-jobs
			if more {
				fmt.Println("received job", j)
			} else {
				fmt.Println("received all jobs")
				done <- true
				return
			}
		}
	}()

	// This sends 3 jobs to the worker over the jobs channel, then
	// close it.
	for j := 1; j <= 3; j++ {
		jobs <- j
		fmt.Println("sent job", j)
	}
	close(jobs)
	fmt.Println("sent all jobs")

	// await the worker using the synchronization approach
	<-done

	// Reading from a closed channel succeeds immediately, returning
	// zero value of the underlying type.
	// The optional second return value is true if the value received
	// was delivered by a successful send operation to the channel, or
	// false if it was a zero value generated because the channel is
	// closed and empty.
	_, ok := <-jobs
	fmt.Println("received more jobs:", ok)
}