The call/[2..] construct is handled by the compiler. The predicates call/[2-8] are defined as real (meta-)predicates and are available to inspection through current_predicate/1, predicate_property/2, etc.^{74Arities 2..8 are demanded by ISO/IEC 13211-1:1995/Cor.2:2012.} Higher arities are handled by the compiler and runtime system, but the predicates are not accessible for inspection.^{75Future versions of the reflective predicate may fake the presence of call/9.. . Full logical behaviour, generating all these pseudo predicates, is probably undesirable and will become impossible if max_arity is removed.}