Is this a feature or a bug? My vote goes to bug, but it's a damned peculiar bug: Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.10-dev-r15900M-trunk (DarwinX8664)! ? (defclass foo2 (ns:ns-object) () (:metaclass ns:+ns-object)) #<OBJC:OBJC-CLASS FOO2 (#x20D42FA0)> ? foo2 #<OBJC:OBJC-CLASS FOO2 (#x20D42FA0)> rg