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Understanding Effect.suspend: A Simple Explanation

could someone explain Effect.suspend to me like im 5 years old? ive read the bit on them in the docs a few times. i think my mental model on effect itself needs shifting abit. it says that it "allows you to defer the evaluation of an effect until it is actually needed", but isn't that what an effect is by its nature? just a reprentation of a computation until its called? by looking at the example at https://effect.website/docs/guides/essentials/creating-effects im struggling to understand why the suspended effect mutates the

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