From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Finding the arity of a function References: Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3209905225011524@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:20:25 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1000916425 193.90.207.74 (Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:20:25 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:20:25 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:16560 * Sam Steingold > there is no standard function for that in ANSI CL. > most implementations do provide this functionality though. : > (defun arglist (fn) ...) Thank you for the portable code, but would it be possible to rename the portable function to function-lambda-list? With that name, it much more closely mimics function-lambda-expression and programmers have a hope of finding it with apropos and in the documentation without knowing its name. ///