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<h2 id="methods_call1" class="codenp">call/N</h2>
<h4>Description</h4>
<pre>call(Closure, Arg)
call(Closure, Arg1, Arg2)
...</pre>
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Calls a goal constructed by appending additional arguments to a closure. The upper limit for <code>N</code> depends on the upper limit for the arity of a compound term of the back-end Prolog compiler.
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<h4>Template and modes</h4>
<pre>call(+callable, ?term)
call(+callable, ?term, ?term)
...</pre>
<h4>Errors</h4>
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<dt>Closure is a variable:</dt>
<dd><code>instantiation_error</code></dd>
<dt>Closure is neither a variable nor a callable term:</dt>
<dd><code>type_error(callable, Closure)</code></dd>
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<dt>Call a goal in <a class="glossary" title="Go to glossary definition" href="../../glossary.html#this">this</a> constructed by appending addtional arguments to a closure:</dt>
<dd><code>call(Closure, Arg1, Arg2, ...)</code></dd>
<dt>Call a goal in <a class="glossary" title="Go to glossary definition" href="../../glossary.html#self">self</a> constructed by appending addtional arguments to a closure:</dt>
<dd><code>::call(Closure, Arg1, Arg2, ...)</code></dd>
<dt>Call a goal in an object constructed by appending addtional arguments to a closure:</dt>
<dd><code>Object::call(Closure, Arg1, Arg2, ...)</code></dd>
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