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Laws for Concurrent

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Description

Opened by #1145. We didn't get to writing down any laws for Concurrent as part of that PR. @djspiewak has ideas on how we can formalize Ref and Deferred here: https://github.com/typelevel/cats-effect/issues/1017#issuecomment-682286555 .

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start by reading the ideas in issue #1017, especially the linked comment, and review how the earlier PR #1145 relates to Concurrent. Define and document laws for Concurrent, including the proposed formalization of Ref and Deferred. Done means the agreed laws are written down and covered by the project’s law-checking tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
scala
Domain
testing
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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