[Python-ideas] Javascript Destructuring Assignment

[Brett Cannon]

On 3/5/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
>
> > I personally am -1 on the idea.  Explicit is better than implicit.
>
> One thing I *would* like to see, that Javascript doesn't
> seem to have either yet, is a *-arg on the end of the
> unpacking list:
>
>    a, b, *c = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>
> giving a == 1, b == 2, c == [3, 4, 5].
>

Now I know that was discussed on python-dev once, but I don't remember
why didn't end up happening.

-Brett