> A legal definition of class-prototype is: (defun class-prototype (class) (allocate-instance class)) Then I think prototype is lousy name for this. What is prototypical about an unitialized instance? How about class-random-instance or class-generic-instance or some such? References Gregor's message of Wed, 9 Dec 87 11:48:00 PST -- MOP Comments (Repost) - 2 3 4 5a