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    From: Guy@AVON.sltd.dialnet.symbolics.COM (Guy Footring)
    Newsgroups: comp.lang.clos
    Subject: With-Accessors again
    Date: 13 Apr 92 16:56:00 GMT

    "The macro with-accessors can be used to establish a lexical environment
    in which specified slots are lexically available through their accessors
    as if they were variables.  The macro with-accessors invokes the
    appropriate accessors to access the specified slots."

I think what is going on here is that, in some sense, the word accessors
should not appear in this passage.  (In this same sense, WITH-ACCESSORS
is misnamed.)  Or maybe it should appear, but it isn't the same as the
technical term that means "automatically generated methods that
read/write slots."  What with-accessors does is translate "lexical
variable syntax" into "calling a simple `accessor' function syntax."

    Would the following contrived example (note the complete lack of slots) 
    be 'legal' CLOS code?

I believe your contrived example is legal code and I would be surprised
if any implementation didn't make it work.