I was thinking about lazyness and IO and worked out this potenial
gotcha. In essence its quite simmler to the pipe buffering problems
you sometimes can get in perl5.
my IO $news = io("nntp://nntp.perl.org",:rw); # Open a nntp connection
my $banner = =$news # Throw away the banner. So far so good.
say($news,"group perl.perl6.language"); # Also no problem
my $status = =$news;
say($news,"listgroup");
my @artical <= grep { True .. /^.$/ } <= for =$news; # Is this
# construction
# right? Anyway
# you should get
# what I'm trying
# todo.
say($news,"article @artical[0]");
for =$news -> {say};
# What happens at this point? Lazyness means that only the first
# artical number has been read. Does my for loop here have the side
# effect of causing the rest of artical list to be read into @artical?
# This is what I would hope would happen.
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