ToC

The Common Lisp Object System MetaObject Protocol

Concepts

Introduction

Metaobjects

Inheritance Structure of Metaobject Classes

Implementation and User Specialization: Restrictions on Implementations; Restrictions on Portable Programs

Processing of the User Interface Macros

Compile-file Processing of the User Interface Macros

The defclass Macro

The defmethod Macro

Processing Method Bodies

The defgeneric Macro

Subprotocols

Metaobject Initialization Protocols: Initialization of Class Metaobjects; Reinitialization of Class Metaobjects; Initialization of Generic Function and Method Metaobjects

Class Finalization Protocol

Instance Structure Protocol

Funcallable Instances

Generic Function Invocation Protocol

Dependent Maintenance Protocol

Dictionary

Generic Functions and Methods Dictionary: Generic Function add-dependent; Generic Function add-direct-method; Generic Function add-direct-subclass; Generic Function add-method; Generic Function allocate-instance; Generic Function class-...; Generic Function compute-applicable-methods; Generic Function compute-applicable-methods-using-classes; Generic Function compute-class-precedence-list; Generic Function compute-default-initargs; Generic Function compute-discriminating-function; Generic Function compute-effective-method; Generic Function compute-effective-slot-definition; Generic Function compute-slots; Generic Function direct-slot-definition-class; Generic Function effective-slot-definition-class; Function ensure-class; Generic Function ensure-class-using-class; Function ensure-generic-function; Generic Function ensure-generic-function-using-class; Function eql-specializer-object; Function extract-lambda-list; Function extract-specializer-names; Generic Function finalize-inheritance; Generic Function find-method-combination; Function funcallable-standard-instance-access; Generic Function generic-function-...; Initialization of Class Metaobjects; Initialization of Method Metaobjects; Initialization of Slot Definition Metaobjects; Function intern-eql-specializer; Generic Function make-instance; Generic Function make-method-lambda; Generic Function map-dependents; Generic Function method-...; Readers for Class Metaobjects; Readers for Generic Function Metaobjects; Readers for Method Metaobjects; Readers for Slot Definition Metaobjects; Generic Function reader-method-class; Generic Function remove-dependent; Generic Function remove-direct-method; Generic Function remove-direct-subclass; Generic Function remove-method; Function set-funcallable-instance-function; Function (setf class-name); Function (setf generic-function-name); Generic Function (setf slot-value-using-class); Generic Function slot-boundp-using-class; Generic Function slot-definition-...; Generic Function slot-makunbound-using-class; Generic Function slot-value-using-class; Generic Function specializer-direct-generic-functions; Generic Function specializer-direct-methods; Function standard-instance-access; Generic Function update-dependent; Generic Function validate-superclass; Generic Function writer-method-class