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 something like arguments.slice(1).

So the question - how to slice everything but first element from arguments?

UPD:

seems like there is no way without converting it to an array with

var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments); 

If someone posts another solution it would be great, if not - I'll check the first one with the line above as an answer.

Answer 1

Q. How to slice everything but first element from arguments?

The following will return an array containing all arguments except the first:

var slicedArgs = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1); 

You don't have to convert arguments to an array first, do it all in one step.