Re: insert classes?

[Joseph.Bates@WIZARD.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU]

Danny Bobrow writes,

   Assume you had started with

   (defclass a (b) ...)

   ...
   Then 

   Evaluate 
   (defclass c (b) ...)      [*] [referenced below]

   and then evaluate:

   (defclass a (c) ...)

   CLOS guarantees that the new definition will override the old one
   and that instances of a will be updated to the new structure the
   next time a method is called on them.

But this requires that the definition of A still be available when C
is to be inserted.  Is it possible to do the insertion without having
to retain the text of the definition of A?  That is, using only the
info on the line tagged by [*] above?  (Or perhaps also using the
knowledge that A is a subclass of B.)

Joe Bates