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In article <mailman.13561.1415897958.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:

> On 13.11.2014 09:35, Alexander Shukaev wrote:
> >>
> >> (defun move (&rest args)
> >>    (apply #'do-move args)))
> >>
> >
> > I'm aware of that, but that's not what I'm looking for... I'm interested in
> > required arguments in the first place.
> >
> 
> What about that way:
> 
> (cadr (symbol-function 'MY-FUNCTION))

That will return the names of the arguments, not the list of actual 
arguments in a call.

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