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385762b4 - allow slurping in any position (#42902)

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allow slurping in any position (#42902) This extends the current slurping syntax by allowing the slurping to not only occur at the end, but anywhere on the lhs. This allows syntax like `a, b..., c = x` to work as expected. The feature is implemented using a new function called `split_rest` (definitely open to better names), which takes as arguments the iterator, the number of trailing variables at the end as a `Val` and possibly a previous iteration state. It then spits out a vector containing all slurped arguments and a tuple with the n values that get assigned to the rest of the variables. The plan would be to customize this for different finite collection, so that the first argument won't always be a vector, but that has not been implemented yet. `split_rest` differs from `rest` of course in that it always needs to be eager, since the trailing values need to be known immediately. This is why the slurped part has to be a vector for most iterables, instead of a lazy iterator as is the case for `rest`.
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