Compatibility: the `init' function no longer calls `imprint' for you.

[sod] / doc / structures.tex

diff --git a/doc/structures.tex b/doc/structures.tex
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--- a/doc/structures.tex
+++ b/doc/structures.tex
@@ -173,11 +173,9 @@ recommended.
     the vtable and class pointers are properly initialized, but the slots are
     left untouched.  The function returns its argument @<p>.
 
-  \item[init] A pointer to a function: given a pointer @<p> to at least
-    @<initsz> bytes of appropriately aligned memory, initialize an instance
-    of the class in it: all of the vtable and class pointers are initialized,
-    as are slots for which initializers are defined.  Other slots are left
-    untouched.  The function returns its argument @<p>.
+  \item[init] A pointer to a function: given a pointer @<p> to an imprinted
+    instance, initialize all of its slots for which initializers are defined.
+    Other slots are left untouched.  The function returns its argument @<p>.
 
   \item[n_supers] The number of direct superclasses.  (This is zero exactly
     in the case of @|SodObject|.)