anges on the object returned by this function implies changes reflected on all its instances. This object can also be used as a constructor of instances.</dd>
	
	<dt><code><b>classof</b>(object)</code></dt>
	<dd>Returns the class of <code>object</code>. If <code>object</code> is not a LOOP object (<i>i.e.</i> a usual table) then its meta-table is returned. Actually, this function is the <code>getmetatable</code> function of Lua for most of LOOP models.</dd>
	
	<dt><code><b>initclass</b>(table)</code></dt>
	