Re: New CLISP version

[David.Loewenstern@att.com (David Loewenstern, Bell Labs, 201-386-6516)]

... On Tue, 24 Aug 93 15:21:18 +0200, haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible) said:

} What is common practice in CLOS programs? Are methods for INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
} frequent or not? What about methods for SHARED-INITIALIZE ?

I've written methods for both INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
SHARED-INITIALIZE, to derive default slot values from other slot
values.  I haven't had a situation in which I couldn't have easily
switched from INITIALIZE-INSTANCE to SHARED-INITIALIZE or vice versa.

Perhaps you could make the compliant version standard, and provide
the non-compliant .fas file for people who needed the speed?

(Or you could get really fancy and add a non-compliant-class
metaclass.)

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