But if we are at it. My problem is that I have a function that returns two values when data is available to it and when no data remained it returns undef.
It should return an empty list when no data remains. Compare
my @a = qw( a b c d );
my $i = sub { @a ? splice(@a, 0, 2) : () };
while (my ($x,$y) = $i->()) {
print("$x:$y\n");
}
with
my @a = qw( a b c d );
my $i = sub { @a ? splice(@a, 0, 2) : (undef,undef) };
while (my ($x,$y) = $i->()) {
print("$x:$y\n");
}
Update: Added missing semicolons.
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