An array destructing specification choice

[Axel Rauschmayer]

> Embedded spreads is already in the ES6 draft for  both array literals and argument lists.  I'm not at all sure that embedded rests in destructurings are such a good idea.

I think it would be nice to express “last element(s)", e.g. in function parameters (where the callback is usually at the end):

     foo(arg1, arg2, ..., argn, callback)


> Just to start with, what does this mean:
> 
>   [a,b,...r,c,d = [1,2,3]

That seems related to
     [a, b, c, d] = [1,2,3]
and to
     [a,b,...r,c,d = [1,2,3,4]

Hence, I would guess:
a === 1
b === 2
r === []
c === 3
d === undefined

I agree with Claus Reinke that naming is tricky: Is destructuring assignment the reverse of invoking a constructor? Is it a desctructor, then? But that clashes with C++ terminology.

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