Getting a canvas-context's last point's coordinates

Question

I want to create an arrowTo function with CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype. To do that, I need to get the coordinates of the last point, e.g.

//... 
var ctx = someCanvas.getContext('2d');

ctx.moveTo(10,40);
//the coordinates of the last point are now (10,40)

ctx.lineTo(50,50);
//and now it's (50,50)

//...

How can I retrieve them?

Answer 1

This is a property that canvas HAS STORED somewhere and it should be available from a property (likely) because it can be difficult tracking last point coordinates.
For example when you draw an arc

ctx.arc(xc, yc, radius, starting_angle, ending_angle); 

You don't have immediate information of the last point coordinates.
Of course this can be obtained in this case with

lastX = xc + radius*Math.cos(ending_angle);
lastY = yc + radius*Math.sin(ending_angle);   

But it is irritating needing to include those computations when we know that canvas does remember last point.
If after the arc instruction you add a

ctx.lineTo(x, y);  

And it does work. Therefore canvas has that last point stored somewhere and I can't understand why it is hidden for the programmer.

Answer 2

You'd have to keep track of them yourself. Or do the unthinkable and override moveTo/lineTo to keep track of the last coords via CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.