Hello.
I've run across an incompatibility of CMUCL/PCL with the ANSI spec,
namely that change-class does not accept key arguments for
initializing additional slots.
Of course, there is a simple remedy, namely:
(defun enhanced-change-class (instance new-class &rest initargs)
"Should not be needed if CMUCL/PCL would be ANSI conforming."
(let ((new-instance (change-class instance new-class)))
(apply #'initialize-instance new-instance initargs)
new-instance))
But I wonder, why this incompatibility exists.
Nicolas.