Maybe the language should be changed to allow Iterator to be changed to have a 
signature like this:
pub trait Iterator<A> {
    fn next<'a>(&'a mut self) -> Option<'a A>;
}

Then you could return the &mut by reborrowing and would be able to advance the 
iterator without issue afterwards.                                         
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