I understand completely where you are coming from, I read the original discussion about hating on File::Find, but to be honest, I have no freaking idea how I'm supposed to make an iterator interface for this thing.

The code in question is almost certainly going to respond to only one event at a time. The code will probably be eval'd once for each event needful, so it'll never have any access to the "next event". I suppose in rare cases it might handle 2 or 3 events, but I doubt it. This is primarily for security purposes as the code handling the event is going to be untrusted, so I don't want it hanging around for very long.