reinitialize-instance instance {&rest initargs {&key} {&allow-other-keys}} => instance
reinitialize-instance (instance standard-object) {&rest initargs}
instance---an object.
initargs---an initialization argument list.
The generic function reinitialize-instance can be used to change the values of local slots of an instance according to initargs. This generic function can be called by users.
The system-supplied primary method for reinitialize-instance checks the validity of initargs and signals an error if an initarg is supplied that is not declared as valid. The method then calls the generic function shared-initialize with the following arguments: the instance, nil (which means no slots should be initialized according to their initforms), and the initargs it received.
The generic function reinitialize-instance changes the values of local slots.
The system-supplied primary method for reinitialize-instance signals an error if an initarg is supplied that is not declared as valid.
section Initialize-Instance , section Shared-Initialize , section update-instance-for-redefined-class [Standard Generic Function] , section update-instance-for-different-class [Standard Generic Function] , section slot-boundp [Function] , section slot-makunbound [Function] , section Reinitializing an Instance, section Rules for Initialization Arguments, section Declaring the Validity of Initialization Arguments
Initargs are declared as valid by using the :initarg option to defclass, or by defining methods for reinitialize-instance or shared-initialize. The keyword name of each keyword parameter specifier in the lambda list of any method defined on reinitialize-instance or shared-initialize is declared as a valid initialization argument name for all classes for which that method is applicable.
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