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

What does (sb-ext:symbol-global-value '*package*) return in your REPL? 
Is it consistent with what 
https://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Special-Variables says?

On 12.06.2024 22:58, Raimondas K. wrote:
> The *package* value in the new thread is not NIL and not what was in 
> the calling thread,
> so the question whether the binding was not retained or set to an 
> unexpected value
> is not as interesting as what the behaviour should be, logically.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     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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