Watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KqUvG8HPYo Rich talking about core.async enhancements and transducers, he said channels will become derefable and then talks about pipeline etc. Channels did not become derefable tho', did they? Was there a specific reason for that?

(all the other stuff -- promise-chan, pipeline, pipeline-async, pipeline-blocking, etc -- seemed to get into core.async)

See https://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/ASYNC-102

There are some namespace circularity errors that made the impl tricky

Never got fully resolved

Interesting reading @alexmiller - Thank you! I guess that's a case where an "impl" namespace gets in the way of future enhancements...

(the workaround doesn't seem too bad tho')