+ ;; FIXME: the line marked by KLUDGE below
+ ;; (and the analogous spot in
+ ;; INSTANCE-WRITE-INTERNAL) is there purely
+ ;; to suppress a type mismatch warning that
+ ;; propagates through to user code.
+ ;; Presumably SLOTS at this point can never
+ ;; actually be NIL, but the compiler seems
+ ;; to think it could, so we put this here
+ ;; to shut it up. (see also mail Rudi
+ ;; Schlatte sbcl-devel 2003-09-21) -- CSR,
+ ;; 2003-11-30