How many arguments does an anonymous function expect in clojure?

by

#(println "Hello, world!") -> no arguments

#(println (str "Hello, " % "!")) -> 1 argument (% is a synonym for %1)

#(println (str %1 ", " %2 "!")) -> 2 arguments

and so on. Note that you do not have to use all %ns, the number of arguments expected is defined by the highest n. So #(println (str "Hello, " %2)) still expects two arguments.

You can also use %& to capture rest args as in

(#(println "Hello" (apply str (interpose " and " %&))) "Jim" "John" "Jamey").

From the Clojure docs:

Anonymous function literal (#())
#(...) => (fn [args] (...))
where args are determined by the presence of argument literals taking the 
form %, %n or  %&. % is a synonym for %1, %n designates the nth arg (1-based), 
and %& designates a rest arg. This is not a replacement for fn - idiomatic 
used would be for very short one-off mapping/filter fns and the like. 
#() forms cannot be nested.

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