Documentation for method sink assembled from the following types:

class List

From List

(List) method sink

Defined as:

method sink(--> Nil) { }

It does nothing, and returns Nil, as the definition clearly shows.

sink [1,2,Failure.new("boo!"),"still here"]; # OUTPUT: «»

class HyperSeq

From HyperSeq

(HyperSeq) method sink

Defined as:

method sink(--> Nil)

Sinks the underlying data structure, producing any side effects.

class RaceSeq

From RaceSeq

(RaceSeq) method sink

Defined as:

method sink(--> Nil)

Sinks the underlying data structure, producing any side effects.

class Proc

From Proc

(Proc) method sink

Defined as:

method sink(--> Nil)

When sunk, the Proc object will throw X::Proc::Unsuccessful if the process it ran exited unsuccessfully.

shell 'ls /qqq';
# OUTPUT: «(exit code 1) ls: cannot access '/qqq': No such file or directory␤The spawned command 'ls /qqq' exited unsuccessfully (exit code: 2)␤ 
n block <unit> at /tmp/3169qXElwq line 1␤␤»

class Seq

From Seq

(Seq) method sink

Defined as:

method sink(--> Nil)

Calls sink-all if it is an Iterator, sink if the Sequence is a list.

say (1 ... 1000).sink; # OUTPUT: «Nil␤»

This is something you might want to do for the side effects of producing those values.