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"Object"? Though that creates ambiguity between definition and instances of the definition.

• miroljub 4y ago
  You just nailed it :) Maybe instead of "Class" and "Object" we should use "Definition" and "Instance".
  • tmtvl 4y ago
    I dunno, replacing all instances of defclass with defdefinition makes programs seem a bit silly.
  • krmboya 4y ago
    Can I humbly suggest that it's definitions and instances 'all the way down'
• dreamcompiler 4y ago
  In CLOS, all classes are instances but not all instances are classes. It just so happens that the object that describes a class's slots, inheritance, etc is ... an instance. Of what? A metaclass. Which is also an instance. It's confusing at first but eventually it all gels.