Do Elixir functions have a maximum airty?

Question

Is there an upper limit to the number of arguments a function can accept? This doesn't count pattern matching. E.g. a function defined like fn ([arg1, arg2, arg3], arg4) only counts as 2.

If there is not an upper limit, does Elixir also support variadic functions?

Answer 1

Elixir runs on top of Erlang for which there seems to be a maximum arity of 255 See this page: http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/typespec.html and search down to the table containing the row: arity() 0..255

Confirmatory Update: Attempting to compile a function with 255 parameters works.

Attempting to compile a function with 256 parameters give the following compilation error:

== Compilation error in file arity.ex ==
** (CompileError) arity.ex:3: too many arguments (256) - maximum allowed is 255
    (stdlib) lists.erl:1338: :lists.foreach/2
    (stdlib) erl_eval.erl:670: :erl_eval.do_apply/6
** (CompileError)  compile error
    (iex) lib/iex/helpers.ex:183: IEx.Helpers.c/2

Test done in Elixir Shell on Windows10 x64 using c "arity.ex" where the contents of arity.ex (plus or minus a parameter) is:

defmodule Test do
 def arity(p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, p9, p10, p11, p12, p13, p14, p15, p16, p17, p18, p19, p20, p21, p22, p23, p24, p25, p26, p27, p28, p29, p30, p31, p32, p33, p34, p35, p36, p37, p38, p39, p40, p41, p42, p43, p44, p45, p46, p47, p48, p49, p50, p51, p52, p53, p54, p55, p56, p57, p58, p59, p60, p61, p62, p63, p64, p65, p66, p67, p68, p69, p70, p71, p72, p73, p74, p75, p76, p77, p78, p79, p80, p81, p82, p83, p84, p85, p86, p87, p88, p89, p90, p91, p92, p93, p94, p95, p96, p97, p98, p99, p100, p101, p102, p103, p104, p105, p106, p107, p108, p109, p110, p111, p112, p113, p114, p115, p116, p117, p118, p119, p120, p121, p122, p123, p124, p125, p126, p127, p128, p129, p130, p131, p132, p133, p134, p135, p136, p137, p138, p139, p140, p141, p142, p143, p144, p145, p146, p147, p148, p149, p150, p151, p152, p153, p154, p155, p156, p157, p158, p159, p160, p161, p162, p163, p164, p165, p166, p167, p168, p169, p170, p171, p172, p173, p174, p175, p176, p177, p178, p179, p180, p181, p182, p183, p184, p185, p186, p187, p188, p189, p190, p191, p192, p193, p194, p195, p196, p197, p198, p199, p200, p201, p202, p203, p204, p205, p206, p207, p208, p209, p210, p211, p212, p213, p214, p215, p216, p217, p218, p219, p220, p221, p222, p223, p224, p225, p226, p227, p228, p229, p230, p231, p232, p233, p234, p235, p236, p237, p238, p239, p240, p241, p242, p243, p244, p245, p246, p247, p248, p249, p250, p251, p252, p253, p254, p255, p256 ) do 
  IO.puts( "hello world" )
 end
end