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Re: How many parameters does an elisp function take?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: How many parameters does an elisp function take?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:02:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Is it possible to determine at run time how many parameters an elisp
>> function takes?  For example, I'd like to write something like:
>> (how-many-params 'null)
>> and have it evaluate to 1.  Or something like that.  Together with
>> some
>> reasonable convention for indicating &optional and &rest arguments.
>
> I would start with eldoc-function-arglist.

For built-in functions, subr-arity might help.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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