Table of contents

• Chapter 5 Concepts
  • Introduction
  • Metaobjects
    • Classes
    • Slot definitions
    • Generic functions
    • Methods
    • Specializers
    • Method combinations
  • 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
• Chapter 6 Generic Functions and Methods
  • Sections
    • Initialization of class metaobjects
    • Initialization of generic function metaobjects
    • Initialization of method metaobjects
    • Initialization of slot definition metaobjects
    • Readers for class metaobjects
    • Readers for generic function metaobjects
    • Readers for method metaobjects
    • Readers for slot definition metaobjects
  • Generic functions and methods
• Additional material
  • Inheritance graph of metaobject classes
  • A list of all classes of the metaobject protocol