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A comment on ECMAScript 6 looks promising. Parent comment
Depending on the language, either you don't or you use a "everything else" operator to an unused variable:
a, b, *_ = list
a, b, * = list
a, *, c = list
And people often use _ as a placeholder when not using splatting:
a, _, _, c, d = list
Depending on the language, either you don't or you use a "everything else" operator to an unused variable:
You could even alter the syntax slightly to put a "Don't care" placeholder: same as above but does not require serializing the [2:] array slice.