Yeah, because it's not a pattern patching, and access to array elements may
have side effects, it's seems hard to specify/implement. Otherwise,
destructuring might analyze the pattern, see the last element is required,
extract it, and then do iteration for others.

Dmitry

On Saturday, October 1, 2016, Michael Theriot <michael.lee.ther...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think this is because there's no universal way of determining when an
> iterator ends. The only way this could work for all iterators would require
> popping values off of `a` after they've been added.
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Cyril Auburtin <cyril.aubur...@gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cyril.aubur...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> It was possibly already discussed, but why isn't:
>> ```
>> var [...a, last] = [1,2,3];
>> ```
>> supported?
>>
>> I don't see the problem, as long as there's one ... only
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