Re: [whatwg/streams] Update ReadableStreamTee to allow cloning for only the second branch (#528)

> I would like to understand though why a direct clone method is not possible/appropriate.

To read the data from a readable stream, you must necessarily remove it from the stream's internal queue. So there is no real way to create a clone; the very act of reading is destructive.

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