[Gd-hackers] Instatiating <class> at runtime

[Thomas Christian Chust]

Hello,

Gwydion Dylan doesn't allow the programmer to instantiate <class> at
runtime with the initialization arguments documented in the Dylan
Reference Manual.

I wonder whether there is a deeper reason for this behaviour. A quick
look at d2c/runtime/dylan/class.dylan shows that most of the code
required to support runtime class creation seems to be there, but
commented out. The only really strange thing is the required
initialization keyword #"class-bucket" for <class>, the purpose of which
is unclear to me.

Can someone shed more light on this issue and explain what this
parameter means and why runtime class creation as described in the
standard is not possible?

Thank you for your help,
Thomas