initialize-instance instance {&rest initargs {&key} {&allow-other-keys}} => instance
initialize-instance (instance standard-object) {&rest initargs}
instance---an object.
initargs---a defaulted initialization argument list.
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.
section Shared-Initialize , section make-instance [Standard Generic Function] , section slot-boundp [Function] , section slot-makunbound [Function] , section Object Creation and Initialization, section Rules for Initialization Arguments, section Declaring the Validity of Initialization Arguments
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