Re: sb-thread:make-thread sets thread's package to CL-USER

It doesn't set anything, it just doesn't retain your binding of *pacakge*
at the time of calling make-thread.

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 11:37 PM Raimondas K. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't see this explicitly documented either way,
> but it looks that, empirically, the *package* inside the
> newly created thread is set to COMMON-LISP-USER.
>
> To demonstrate
> (defpackage :my (:use :cl))
> (in-package :my)
>
> (defun test ()
>   (format *standard-output* "in TEST thread: package ~a~%" *package*))
>
> (format *standard-output* "in MAIN thread: package ~a~%" *package*)
>
> (sb-thread:make-thread #'test
>                          :arguments '()
>                          :name "test")
>
> SBCL 2.3.2 prints out
> in MAIN thread: package #<PACKAGE "MY">
> in TEST thread: package #<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP-USER">
>
> Not sure if this is how it is supposed to work; I find this
> behaviour counterintuitive, c/w for instance, with (load "file").
>
>    =R.
>
>
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