Clojure: How to find out the arity of function at runtime?

Question

Given a function object or name, how can I determine its arity? Something like (arity func-name) .

I hope there is a way, since arity is pretty central in C

Answer 1

The arity of a function is stored in the metadata of the var.

(:arglists (meta #'str))
;([] [x] [x & ys])

This requires that the function was either defined using defn, or the :arglists metadata supplied explicitly.