[Openmcl-devel] defstruct - generic constructor?

[David Reitter]

Sorry, I should have made clear that I need a _generic_ constructor,  
that is, a constructor for a type specified dynamically.  (The `chunk- 
type' variable in my example.)

On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Laughing Water wrote:

> Fortunately, the even more obvious solution works!
>
> Whenever you use defstruct, you're also getting a constructor. For  
> example,
>
> (defstruct probe time temperature)
>
> (setf *my-probe* (make-probe))
>
> Others more advanced than me will give a more complete answer.
>
> Laughing Water
>
>
> On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:26 PM, David Reitter wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to make instances of objects whose types have been
>> defined using `defstruct'.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the obvious `make-instance' doesn't work (with ccl at
>> least).  I'm glad, however, that `class-of' and `class-name' do their
>> jobs.
>>
>> The only way I got this to work was this clumsy hack:
>>
>> (apply (read-from-string (format nil "make-~a" (class-name chunk- 
>> type)))
>> ...)
>>
>> Is there a nicer, more efficient way of doing this?
>> I'd need to find out what the constructor is for a given class.
>> Reading the `defstruct'  code didn't help me much.
>>
>> In more general terms, can I expect that `class-of' and `class-name'
>> work for structures in other CL implementations?
>>
>> Thanks for your input.
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