Linked issue

Partly addresses #6589

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• Performance improvement (includes benchmark results below)
• Documentation update
• New feature or public API (requires prior proposal or issue approval)
• Refactor / internal cleanup (no user-visible change)
• Build, CI, or tooling change

Motivation

Discussed in #6589.

What changed

Added an empty iterator, that yields nothing.

from std.testing import assert_raises
from std.iter import empty

var it = empty[Int]()
with assert_raises():
    _ = next(it)

Testing

Added new tests and successfully ran the whole test suite.

Checklist

• The linked issue above has been reviewed by a maintainer and is
  agreed-upon, or this is a trivial fix that does not need prior
  approval
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  smaller PRs where possible (see
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• I ran ./bazelw run format to format my changes
• I added or updated tests to cover my changes
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