How to introspect function & macro arguments in elisp?

Question

Is there a programmatic way to access function/macro arguments,

Something like this, which returns the the arg count and true if it accepts any number of additional arguments.

eg:

• (number-of-arguments-and-rest "if") -> '(2, t)
• (number-of-arguments-and-rest "progn") -> '(0, t)
• (number-of-arguments-and-rest "null") -> '(1, nil)

Answer 1

You can use func-arity added in 26.1. C-h f func-arity:

func-arity is a built-in function in `C source code'.

(func-arity FUNCTION)

Return minimum and maximum number of args allowed for FUNCTION.
FUNCTION must be a function of some kind.
The returned value is a cons cell (MIN . MAX).
MIN is the minimum number of args.
MAX is the maximum number, or the symbol many, for a function with &rest args, or unevalled for a special form.

For example,

(func-arity 'null)
;; => (1 . 1)

(func-arity 'if)
;; => (2 . unevalled)

(func-arity 'progn)
;; => (0 . unevalled)

(func-arity '+)
;; => (0 . many)