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Curriculum Concurrency Select exercise 3 · mcq

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Adding a default case to a select block changes its behaviour. Pick the statement that describes the change.

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select waits on multiple channel operations and runs the case for whichever is ready first. With a default branch it becomes non-blocking. Paired with time.After(d) it becomes a timeout. This is the closest thing Go has to a "wait on a set of futures" primitive.