Clarify use of buffered channel in the timeouts example.
The buffered channel prevents goroutine leaks in case the channel doesn't end up being read (as indeed happens to c1). Updates #207
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@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ func main() {
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// For our example, suppose we're executing an external
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// call that returns its result on a channel `c1`
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// after 2s.
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// after 2s. Note that the channel is buffered, so the
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// send in the goroutine is nonblocking. This is a
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// common pattern to prevent goroutine leaks in case the
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// channel is never read.
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c1 := make(chan string, 1)
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go func() {
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time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
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