But is it not enough to do that?

```js
const [item] = await db.scan({
  ...
```

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 23:50, Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> wrote:

> It might be useful on some occasions to destructure async iterators. For
> the sake of example, I'm using `await [...]` as the syntax, but I'm by no
> means married to it.
>
> 1. Collecting a Node stream into a buffer:
>
> ```js
> const await [...buffers] = someStream.setEncoding('buffer')
> return Buffer.concat(buffers)
> ```
>
> 2. Collecting the first matching entry in a database scan:
>
> ```js
> // It's different for each database
> const await [item] = db.scan({
>     filter: {key: value},
>     limit: 1,
> })
> ```
>
> It's not a common need, but it's useful either way, and it brings async
> iterators and sync iterators closer to feature parity.
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