Come up with a style guide and stick to it. Failure to do that with any language, no matter how restrictive, leads to messy code. It doesn't matter which way

Come up with a style guide and stick to it. Failure to do that with any language, no matter how restrictive, leads to messy code. It doesn't matter which way you unpack your args unless you are trying to do something fancy (the sub 1% cases). Just pick one. Hell, it's easy enough to make a script to rewrite multiple shifts into destructured list assignment or vice versa.