If your iterator is designed to return a list each iteration and an empty list is valid then you will prematurely terminate.
Uhm, the whole idea with the above is that if you want "a list" from the iterator the iterator returns an array reference, just as you do if you want to return two or more "lists" from a subroutine or have several "lists" in a list or array.
Why on earth would the iterator want to return a list instead of an array reference? That would just make it uncomfortable to use. If you return array references you have a perfectly general, maintainable and safe way to signal exhaustion.
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