Most of the magic of destructuring uses the splat (*) operator.
*
a, b = [0,1]
a=0, b=1
a, *rest = [0,1,2,3]
a=0, rest=[1,2,3]
a, * = [0,1,2,3]
a=0
.first
*, z = [0,1,2,3]
z=3
.last