+ ;; KLUDGE: why not use (slot-boundp class
+ ;; 'class-precedence-list)? Well, unfortunately, CPL-OR-NIL is
+ ;; used within COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS, including for
+ ;; SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS... and the available mechanism for
+ ;; breaking such nasty cycles in effective method computation
+ ;; only works for readers and writers, not boundps. It might
+ ;; not be too hard to make it work for BOUNDP accessors, but in
+ ;; the meantime we use an extra slot for exactly the result of
+ ;; the SLOT-BOUNDP that we want. (We cannot use
+ ;; CLASS-FINALIZED-P, because in the process of class
+ ;; finalization we need to use the CPL which has been computed
+ ;; to cache effective methods for slot accessors.) -- CSR,
+ ;; 2004-09-19.
+ (when (cpl-available-p class)