From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: figuring out # of args Date: 2000/10/06 Message-ID: <3179836218724464@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 678461198 References: mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 970870015 1110 195.0.192.66 (6 Oct 2000 22:06:55 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Oct 2000 22:06:55 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "Paul Tarvydas" | I don't know how to do such exploration in modern c-lisp | (specifically Xanalys). I've hit a number of occassions where, due | to apparent lack of documentation, I wanted to explore to see if a | function to do what I wanted already existed (esp. CAPI stuff). | Sometimes I stumbled on a function with a suggestive name, but | couldn't figure out how many args it needed. I would expect to find a function with a suggestive name like "arglist" or somesuch that returns helpful information on the argument list. | Am I missing something? Are there tricks that I haven't thought of? | Or, does the compiled nature of lisp prevent me from actually | digging that deeply? That probably depends on how quick you are to understand disassembly. #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.