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+Puppet::Parser::Functions::newfunction(
+  :slice,
+  :arity => -3,
+  :doc => <<-DOC
+Applies a parameterized block to each _slice_ of elements in a sequence of selected entries from the first
+argument and returns the first argument, or if no block is given returns a new array with a concatenation of
+the slices.
+
+This function takes two mandatory arguments: the first, `$a`, should be an Array, Hash, or something of
+enumerable type (integer, Integer range, or String), and the second, `$n`, the number of elements to include
+in each slice. The optional third argument should be a a parameterized block as produced by the puppet syntax:
+
+    $a.slice($n) |$x| { ... }
+    slice($a) |$x| { ... }
+
+The parameterized block should have either one parameter (receiving an array with the slice), or the same number
+of parameters as specified by the slice size (each parameter receiving its part of the slice).
+In case there are fewer remaining elements than the slice size for the last slice it will contain the remaining
+elements. When the block has multiple parameters, excess parameters are set to :undef for an array or
+enumerable type, and to empty arrays for a Hash.
+
+    $a.slice(2) |$first, $second| { ... }
+
+When the first argument is a Hash, each `key,value` entry is counted as one, e.g, a slice size of 2 will produce
+an array of two arrays with key, and value.
+
+Example Using slice with Hash
+
+    $a.slice(2) |$entry|          { notice "first ${$entry[0]}, second ${$entry[1]}" }
+    $a.slice(2) |$first, $second| { notice "first ${first}, second ${second}" }
+
+When called without a block, the function produces a concatenated result of the slices.
+
+Example Using slice without a block
+
+    slice([1,2,3,4,5,6], 2) # produces [[1,2], [3,4], [5,6]]
+    slice(Integer[1,6], 2)  # produces [[1,2], [3,4], [5,6]]
+    slice(4,2)              # produces [[0,1], [2,3]]
+    slice('hello',2)        # produces [[h, e], [l, l], [o]]
+
+- since 3.2 for Array and Hash
+- since 3.5 for additional enumerable types
+- note requires `parser = future`.
+DOC
+) do |args|
+  function_fail(["slice() is only available when parser/evaluator future is in effect"])
+end