Some functions take a variable number of arguments, or a few expected
arguments at the beginning and then a variable number of values to operate
on. This helper accumulates all remaining arguments past the function’s
argument length (or an explicit startIndex), into an array that becomes
the last argument. Similar to ES6’s “rest parameter”.
export default function restArguments(func, startIndex) {
startIndex = startIndex == null ? func.length - 1 : +startIndex;
return function() {
var length = Math.max(arguments.length - startIndex, 0),
rest = Array(length),
index = 0;
for (; index < length; index++) {
rest[index] = arguments[index + startIndex];
}
switch (startIndex) {
case 0: return func.call(this, rest);
case 1: return func.call(this, arguments[0], rest);
case 2: return func.call(this, arguments[0], arguments[1], rest);
}
var args = Array(startIndex + 1);
for (index = 0; index < startIndex; index++) {
args[index] = arguments[index];
}
args[startIndex] = rest;
return func.apply(this, args);
};
}