Arity of funs

[Richard Carlsson]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Tony Pedley wrote:

> Hi,
> Well I've searched the OTP book, trawled the erlang questions
> archive(very good by the way, however there should be an all button on
> the Available Subdirectories) and I still can't work out how to do it. 
> 
> How do you extract the arity of a Fun? e.g How do I do this
> 
> F = fun(X,Y,Z) -> end,
> 
> X = get_fun_arity(F).
> 
> 3

You don't, I'm sure. Sorry.

1: Neither the old representation of funs as tuples, nor the new
representation in R6 contain the arity. (The BIF erlang:fun_info/1 can
give you some information "for debugging purposes only", but not the
arity.) 

2. Even if you know the module where the source code resides, and the
fun-table index of a particular fun, there is no way to ask the module
what the arity of that fun is (short of disassembling the compiled code). 

Out of curiosity: why do you want to find the arity of an arbitrary fun? 

	/Richard Carlsson


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