Re: CLOS changes in 6.1

Le 22 févr. 2012 à 21:25, Fabrice Popineau a écrit :

> I read the release notes for LWW 6.1 and find this :
>
> 13.16.1  Initarg checking extended
> The system-supplied primary methods for reinitialize-instance,
> update-instance-for-redefined-class and update-instance-fordifferent-class now check the initargs as specified by ANSI Common
> Lisp.  In previous LispWorks releases, only make-instance checked them.
>
> In 6.0, there was this variable :
> (setf clos::*CHECK-MAKE-INSTANCE-INITARGS* nil)
> whose effect was to turn off this checking  (or that's what I thought).
>
> Has this variable disappeared? I get errors with 6.1 about invalid initargs arguments
> to reinitialize-instance which I didn't get previously with 6.0.

yes, I think you should now use :

(clos::set-clos-initarg-checking nil)


Best,

Jean


>
> I would also like to know something about locking instances during make-instance (or reinitialize-instance).
> If I define an after method on reinitialize-instance, is the lock on the instance released during this after method ?
> (Ok, I could test it quickly I guess).
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments,
>
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