http://blog.darkhax.com/2011/06/18/idiomatic-go-channel-timeout

timeout.go

func Download(out chan string, urls... string) {
    for url := range(urls) {
        go func() {
           out <- HttpGet(url)
        }()
    }
}

func Process(in chan string) {
    select {
    case html := <- in:
        // Do something with html
    case <- time.After(10 * 1e9)
        // Timed out after 10 seconds!
    }
}

func DoStuff() {
    // Make a channel
    pipe := make(chan string, 10)

    // Kick off goroutines to download the URLs
    Download(pipe, "http://blog.darkhax.com/2011/05/06/simple-ruby-pipes", "http://blog.darkhax.com/2011/03/28/rubber-duck-debugging")

    // Process them, with a timeout
    Process(pipe)
}

Thanks for the blog article that goes with this. Very clear.

I fixed a missing colon and made the example slightly more readable here: https://gist.github.com/mjs/38a2c7cba406792a7143

The changes are for line 13. Feel free to integrate.