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From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: How can I translate C++ into CLOS?
Date: 1998/04/22
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* Kjetil Valstadsve
| Are there any traditional ways to do lazy initialisation instead?  An
| access function would then be defined to a) check for the slot's value;
| when not set, set it to some initial value and b) return the slot's
| value.

  you could define methods on the generic function SLOT-UNBOUND to handle
  this case, but I have neither seen this done nor done this myself, so
  don't know how "traditional" it might be.  it would work, though.

#:Erik
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