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Classes and Instances

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A class is a data structure template. A specific application of the template is termed an instance. All instances of a class have the same slots. SKILL++ Object System provides the following functions:

• defclass to create a class
• makeInstance to create an instance of a class
• initializeInstance to initialize a newly created instance

This topic provides a list of functions for classes and instances.

allocateInstance	changeClass	className
classOf	classp	defclass
findClass	initializeInstance	isClass
makeInstance	printself	setSlotValue
sharedInitialize	slotBoundp	slotUnbound
slotValue

Related Topics

Generic Functions and Methods

Generic Specializers

Subclasses and Superclasses

Dependency Maintenance Protocol Functions

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