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Consider adding LazyIO and friends

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Description

The thing about `IO` in multiple languages / libraries is that it is lazy.

Our `IO` is not lazy by design. It is done, so Python developers can use it like so: `impure(print)(1) # prints "1"`
But, we also need to think about other problems as well:
1. Retries, with proper lazy `IO` one can retry an operation as many times as one wishes: `p = impure_lazy(print)(1); p(); p() # prints "1" twice`
2. Semantical identity to `Future`, currently it is not similar to regular `IO`, because `Future`s are lazy: they don't run until they are executed properly
3. New users will find the similar data-type they already know from other languages / libraries

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