# \#arity

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## [The "Arity Curtain"](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/the-arity-curtain/9624)

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**Author:** [@YueLiPicasso](https://discuss.ocaml.org/u/YueLiPicasso)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/the-arity-curtain/9624 "2022-04-01T18:58:47Z")

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I acknowledge that the notion of arity as the number recorded in a closure’s info field is unusual. Usually, the arity of a function means the number of parameters it can take, which is, implicitly, the maximum number of…