[raiph]

Fyi, Jonathan recently wrote:

> Also, the name channel is evocative of the concept in Go, but our channels aren't like that. They don't block senders until the receiver is ready, for example. While a blocking queue is a very useful thing to have in a language, and we should keep it, we may want to stop calling it Channel, to avoid confusion (and keep the name free for something that has the Go-ish semantics).

(from https://gist.github.com/jnthn/a56fd4a22e7c43080078)

(note that most of the changes mentioned in the gist have since been implemented)