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I had been wondering what the `amb` operator in Rx is named after. It takes any number of reactive streams and evaluates to the one that first emits a value, discarding the others. I presume the analogy here is that because it doesn’t block, it figuratively has to ”look into the future” to figure out which stream to return. But is there a deeper theoretical connection there?


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