A named KnowledgeWorks CLOS class is defined by the macro
def-named-kb-class which is syntactically identical to the Common Lisp defclass macro, and semantically identical with the exception that it adds a KnowledgeWorks mixin class named-kb-object if none of the superclasses already contains it, and makes the default name for the objects be a symbol generated from the class name. Classes defined by def-named-kb-class contain a name slot which those defined by def-kb-class do not.
The function make-instance can be given the initialisation argument :name to specify a name. If not specified, a default name is generated. All names must be distinct as regarded by eq . The function
(get-kb-object <name>)retrieves the instance from its name. The function
(kb-name <object>)returns the name of the given object.