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Clarify the interplay of `Stream` and `Enum`
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Reformulation of one-by-one by the one and only
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions lib/elixir/lib/stream.ex
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Expand Up @@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ defmodule Stream do
Due to their laziness, streams are useful when working with large
(or even infinite) collections. When chaining many operations with `Enum`,
intermediate lists are created, while `Stream` creates a recipe of
computations that are executed at a later moment. Let's see another
example:
computations that are executed at a later moment. Then when the
stream is consumed later on, most commonly by using a function in
the `Enum` module, the stream will emit its elements one by one.

Let's see another example:

1..3
|> Enum.map(&IO.inspect(&1))
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