Re: testing arity

[tomas]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 11:19:28AM -0500, Jon Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a good way to determine the number of arguments that a given 
> procedure will take?

Here's a fishing rod ;-)

 | address@hidden:~$ guile
 | guile> (apropos "arity")
 | (ice-9 session): arity  #<procedure arity (obj)>
 | guile> (arity apropos)
 | 1 or more arguments: `rgx', the rest in `options'.
 | guile> 

> Also, on an unrelated note, is it possible to define values (as in (lambda 
> () (values 1 2)) ) in terms of McCarthy's original seven lisp primitives? 
> Or would this question be better asked somewhere else (like c.l.scheme)?

I don't understand exactly what you mean here. There is values and
call-with-values in guile -- but maybe my answer is way off...

Regards
-- toms

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