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7.7.36 initialize-instance | Standard Generic Function
Syntax: initialize-instance instance `&rest` initargs `&key` `&allow-other-keys` instance Method Signatures: initialize-instance (instance standard-object) `&rest` initargs Arguments and Values: instance - an object. initargs - a defaulted initialization argument list. Description: Called by make-instance to initialize a newly created instance. The generic function is called with the new instance and the defaulted initialization argument list. The system-supplied primary method on initialize-instance initializes the slots of the instance with values according to the initargs and the `:initform` forms of the slots. It does this by calling the generic function shared-initialize with the following arguments: the instance, t (this indicates that all slots for which no initialization arguments are provided should be initialized according to their `:initform` forms), and the initargs. Programmers can define methods for initialize-instance to specify actions to be taken when an instance is initialized. If only after methods are defined, they will be run after the system-supplied primary method for initialization and therefore will not interfere with the default behavior of initialize-instance. See Also: shared-initialize, make-instance, slot-boundp, slot-makunbound, Section 7.1 Object Creation and Initialization, Section 7.1.4 Rules for Initialization Arguments, Section 7.1.2 Declaring the Validity of Initialization Arguments Allegro CL Implementation Details: None.

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