It seems to me that your solution has two problems.

First, you cannot have more than one active iterator in your program at once.

Second, you used a lot of code!

You might prefer this object-oriented approach. The interface is almost the same as yours, but the code is only six lines long: 

sub iterstart {
  my @a = @_;
  return sub {
    my $n = shift;
    $n = 1 unless defined $n;
    return splice @a, 0, $n;
  };
}

@data = qw(1 fee 2 fee fi 3 fee fi fo 4 fee fi fo fum 1 fin);
my $iter = iterstart @data;
while (my ($len) = $iter->()) {
   push @lol, [$iter->($len)];
}

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper \@lol;

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In reply to Re: iter by Dominus
in thread iter by MeowChow

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