- "The generic function UPDATE-RECORD-FROM-SLOTS updates data in the
-columns represented by SLOTS. The DATABASE is only used if OBJECT is
-not yet associated with any database, in which case a record is
-created in DATABASE. Only slots are initialized in this case; other
-columns in the underlying database receive default values. The
-argument SLOTS contains the CLOS slot names; the corresponding column
-names are derived from the view class definition."))
+ "Updates the values stored in the columns represented by the
+slots, specified by the CLOS slot names SLOTS, of View Class
+instance OBJECT. DATABASE defaults to *DEFAULT-DATABASE* and
+specifies the database in which the update is made only if OBJECT
+is not associated with a database. In this case, a record is
+created in the appropriate table of DATABASE and the attributes
+represented by SLOTS are initialised from the values of the
+supplied slots with other attributes having default
+values. Furthermore, OBJECT becomes associated with DATABASE."))