How to get a slice from “arguments”

Question

All you know that arguments is a special object that holds all the arguments passed to the function.

And as long as it is not an array - you cannot use

Answer 1

Meddling with array functions is not actually necessary.

Using rest parameter syntax ...rest is cleaner and more convenient.

Example

function argumentTest(first, ...rest) {
  console.log("First arg:" + first);

  // loop through the rest of the parameters
  for (let arg of rest) {
    console.log("- " + arg);
  }
}

// call your function with any number of arguments
argumentTest("first arg", "#2", "more arguments", "this is not an argument but a contradiction");

...Rest

• See the example Fiddle
• See MDN Documentation page