Looking for a better term

From: Peter Seibel (peter_at_javamonkey.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:33:48 GMT

In my chapter on user-defined classes I use the term "user-defined"
classes to mean classes that are defined with DEFCLASS and are
instances of STANDARD-CLASS. In a footnote I explain that this isn't
exactly the right term because a) Users can also use DEFSTRUCT to
define new classses that aren't instances of STANDARD-CLASS and b)
classes provided by the implementation (i.e. not user-defined) can be
instances of STANDARD-CLASS.

But I couldn't think of any other term that was more accurate and
about the same length. As I explain in my footnote I don't want to
call them "standard" classes since that makes all the built-in classes
into what, "non-standard" classes?

I'm revising that chapter now so if someone can come up with a better
term in the next few hours I still have a chance to change it. Any
ideas?

-Peter 

-- 
Peter Seibel                                      peter@javamonkey.com
         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

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