Re: testing number of arguments of a closure

[rm]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:50:05PM +0000, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> I'd like to be able to create a closure using scm_c_eval_string and
> then test the returned proc to see whether it has the correct (which
> depends on some external context) number of arguments.
> 
> For example:
> 
> 
>    SCM myproc = scm_c_eval_string("(lambda (x y) (+ x y))");
> 
>    if ( has_args(myproc, 2) )
>      // do something
>    else
>      // signal error.
> 
> 
> Is there a guile way to do "has_args" above?

 Are you looking for the  c-level equivalent of the "arity" function?
 
 ralf mattes