=begin pod =TITLE Code class Code is Any does Callable { ... } C is the ultimate base class of all code objects in Perl 6. It exposes functionality that all code objects have. While thunks are directly of type C, most code objects (such as those resulting from blocks, subroutines or methods) will be of some subclass of C. =head1 Methods =head2 ACCEPTS multi method ACCEPTS(Code:D: Mu $topic) Usually calls the code object and passes C<$topic> as an argument. However, when called on a code object that takes no arguments, the code object is invoked with no arguments and C<$topic> is dropped. The result of the call is returned. =head2 arity method arity(Code:D:) returns Int:D Returns the minimum number of positional arguments that must be passed in order to call the code object. Any optional or slurpy parameters in the code object's C do not contribute, nor do named parameters. sub argless() { } sub args($a, $b?) { } sub slurpy($a, $b, *@c) { } say &argless.arity; # 0 say &args.arity; # 1 say &slurpy.arity; # 2 =head2 count method count(Code:D:) returns Real:D Returns the maximum number of positional arguments that may be passed when calling the code object. For code objects that can accept any number of positional arguments (that is, they have a slurpy parameter), C will return C. Named parameters do not contribute. sub argless() { } sub args($a, $b?) { } sub slurpy($a, $b, *@c) { } say &argless.count; # 0 say &args.count; # 2 say &slurpy.count; # Inf =head2 signature multi method signature(Code:D:) returns Signature:D Returns the C object for this code object, which describes its parameters. =head2 Str multi method Str(Code:D:) returns Str:D Returns the name of the code object. sub marine() { } say ~&marine; # marine =end pod