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4.2 Instance Creation

make <class> . initargs (method)

• allocate-instance class initargs (generic)

  The applied allocate-instance method should allocate storage for a new instance of class class and return the uninitialized instance.

• initialize instance initargs (generic)

  instance is the uninitialized instance returned by allocate-instance. The applied method should initialize the new instance in whatever sense is appropriate for its class. The method's return value is ignored.