Let golang close used channel after all goroutines finished

Question

I am trying to run a number of goroutines which will give their results to a channel. I need a good way to let channel close after all goroutines are done.

My first

Answer 1

The sync.WaitGroup type should encapsulate what you want to do, without needing sleep calls or busy waiting. It allows you to wait on an arbitrary number of tasks, not worrying about which order they complete.

Taking your original example, you could alter it to use a wait group like so:

var wg sync.WaitGroup
for i:=0; i<=10;i++{
    wg.Add(1)
    go func(){
        result:=calculate()
        c<-result
        wg.Done()
    }()
}
// Close the channel when all goroutines are finished
go func() {
    wg.Wait()
    close(c)
}()
for result:= range c{
    all_result=append(all_result, result...)
}