As you never close the ch
channel, the range loop will never finish.
You can’t send back the result on the same channel. A solution is to use a different one.
Your program could be adapted like this :
package main
import (
"fmt"
)
func total(in chan int, out chan int) {
res := 0
for iter := range in {
res += iter
}
out <- res // sends back the result
}
func main() {
ch := make(chan int)
rch := make(chan int)
go total(ch, rch)
ch <- 1
ch <- 2
ch <- 3
close (ch) // this will end the loop in the total function
result := <- rch // waits for total to give the result
fmt.Println("Total is ", result)
}