File::Find using a junction with exclude

[Joseph Brenner]

The documentation for File::Find says that the exclude argument
is applied via a smart-match, so I thought that I could use a
junction, like so:

   use File::Find
   my @files = find( dir => $loc, type => 'file', exclude => any(
@exclude_pats ) );

But instead of getting an array of file names (either strings or
IO objects would be fine), that returns an any junction of IO
objects, built-up from a peculiar set of hits.

Does that make sense to anyone?

Here's some code that demos the problem:

use v6;
use File::Find;

## create some files to find
my $loc = "/tmp/monster_island";
mkdir( $loc );
chdir( $loc );
my @monsters = < godzilla mothera rhodan >;
for @monsters -> $name {
    $name.IO.spurt("The $name attacks!");
}

## without exclude, we find all 3 files
my @files_all = find( dir => $loc, type => 'file' );
say @files_all.elems;     # 3

## with a handcrafted regex we find only 2, skipping mothera as expected
my @files_trimmed = find( dir => $loc, type => 'file', exclude =>
rx/<|w>[mothera|camel]$/ );
say @files_trimmed.elems; # 2

## Trying to do the same with an any junction doesn't work:
my @exclude = ( rx/<|w>mothera$/, rx/<|w>camel$/ );
my @files = find( dir => $loc, type => 'file', exclude => any(@exclude) );
say @files;
# [any(("/home/doom/tmp/monster_island/godzilla".IO
"/home/doom/tmp/monster_island/rhodan".IO),
("/home/doom/tmp/monster_island/godzilla".IO
"/home/doom/tmp/monster_island/mothera".IO
"/home/doom/tmp/monster_island/rhodan".IO))]
##
## (1) we end up with a single "any" junction in the first element
## (2) there are five hits, two redundant rhodan and godzillas, plus
one mothera slips through (?)

## but note that this works:
for @monsters {
    .say unless $_ ~~ any(@exclude)
}
# godzilla
# rhodan



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