ES6 template literal to "decompiled" array representation

Question

Template literals, when used with tags, seem to get compiled down to an array containing the strings and the substitutions.

For example:

mytag `my name is ${'Anthony'}`

seems to get compiled down to something representing:

mytag.apply(null, [['my name is '], 'Anthony'])

My question is, how could I take `my name is ${'Anthony'}` and get the [['my name is '], 'Anthony'] "decompiled" representation?

I've included a snippet to demonstrate the above is true.

function mytag(a, ...b) {
  for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
    console.log(a[i]);
    console.log(b[i]);
  }
}

mytag`hello ${'world'}, how are ${'you'}`;

mytag.apply(null, [['hello', ', how are ', ''], 'world', 'you']);

Edit

Just to clarify my overall goal.

I'd like to have the ability to pass a template literal into a tag.

Here is a slightly more complicated example,

const myliteral = `my  name is ${() => 'Anthony'}`;
// would "decompile" to [['my name is'], f]

mytag.apply(null, fnToGetDecompiledRep(myliteral));

I'm using a function in myliteral to demonstrate that the function does not get evaluated. You can assume mytag has logic to evaluate functions.

Answer 1

You could just make

function templateValues(...args) {
    return args;
}

and call it as

console.log(templateValues `my name is ${'Anthony'}`)
console.log(templateValues `hello ${'world'}, how are ${'you'}`;

I'd like to get the array representation without the use of a tag

const myliteral = `my  name is ${() => 'Anthony'}`;
// would "decompile" to [['my name is'], f]
mytag.apply(null, fnToGetDecompiledRep(myliteral));

No, that cannot work. myLiteral would be assigned string value that the literal expression creates here. You cannot "decompile" it afterwards. You need to use

const myParts = templateValues `my  name is ${() => 'Anthony'}`;
// same as  … = [['my name is'], () => 'Anthony'];
myTag.apply(null, myParts); // or myTag(...myParts)

There is no way around a tag to get the template values instead of a string.