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tunnel

Carry a typed value between concurrent work

complete-programconcurrencycpukeywordyeho

Use a tunnel when producers and consumers should communicate without sharing an unbounded mutable queue.

tunnel

Status: experimental

Tunnel runtime

Use a tunnel when producers and consumers should communicate without sharing an unbounded mutable queue.

cpu · complete-program · type checked

tunnel<int> scores

scores.Send(13)
wait until scores.hasValue

Console.Log(Text.From(scores.Receive()))


project.mech
package = "tests.compiler.kyber.tunnelRuntime"
version = "0.1.0"
backend = "kyber"
osTarget = "windows"
archTarget = "x64"
selfContainedApp = false



Notes and source

The channel keyword was removed. Use tunnel.

Tunnels are capacity one, FIFO, and backpressured in the current contract.

yeho/errors-tasks-effects-2026.1.json; tests/compiler/errors-tasks-effects/tunnel-handoff/start.yh