In CLOS, instance remorphing considered useless in practice?

[Nick Levine]

> Can I ask why you invoke #'CL:CHANGE-CLASS on an object instead of simply creating a new instance of the second class with adequate initialization?

Because you’d have to go find all the pointers to the old instance. Maybe you don’t want to do that. Or maybe you don’t care, but that’s ok because what CLOS gives you is possibilities. 

Class redefinition is cheap, in the sense that until you touch each instance (i.e. passing it to a method) no work is done on it. I suspect — but can’t remember the details — that cl:change-class recalculated slots on the spot. 

- nick