Apropos

7.4 Meta-Objects

The implementation of the object system manipulates classes, methods, and generic functions. The object system contains a set of generic functions defined by methods on classes; the behavior of those generic functions defines the behavior of the object system. The instances of the classes on which those methods are defined are called meta-objects.

7.4.1 Standard Meta-objects

The object system supplies a set of meta-objects, called standard meta-objects. These include the class standard-object and instances of the classes standard-method, standard-generic-function, and method-combination.