earliest example

lib/Language/concurrency.pod

@@ -370,6 +370,34 @@ The L<method closed|/type/Channel#method_closed> returns a L<Promise> that
 will be kept (and consequently will evaluate to True in a boolean context,)
 when the channel is closed.
 
+Because looping over a channel in this manner is a common pattern there is
+a simpler fumctional syntax to do this:
+
+    my $channel = Channel.new;
+
+    start {
+        loop {
+            earliest $channel {
+                more * {
+                    say $_;
+                }
+                done * {
+                    last;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    await (^10).map: -> $r {
+        start {
+            sleep $r;
+            $channel.send($r);
+        }
+    }
+
+    $channel.close;
+
+
 =head1 Low-level APIs
 
 =head2 Threads