Destructuring to get the last element of an array in es6
In coffeescript this is straightforward:
coffee> a = ['a', 'b', 'program']
[ 'a', 'b', 'program' ]
coffee> [_..., b] = a
[ 'a', 'b', 'program' ]
coffee> b
'program'
Does es6 allow for something similar?
> const [, b] = [1, 2, 3]
'use strict'
> b // it got the second element, not the last one!
2
> const [...butLast, last] = [1, 2, 3]
SyntaxError: repl: Unexpected token (1:17)
> 1 | const [...butLast, last] = [1, 2, 3]
| ^
at Parser.pp.raise (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\babel\node_modules\babel-core\node_modules\babylon\lib\parser\location.js:24:13)
Of course I can do it the es5 way -
const a = b[b.length - 1]
But maybe this is a bit prone to off by one errors. Can the splat only be the last thing in the destructuring?
Answer
console.log('last', [1, 3, 4, 5].slice(-1));
console.log('second_to_last', [1, 3, 4, 5].slice(-2));