globalq

Arguments: symbol

Because (system:global-symbol-value 'xxx) is such a common place for shared data operations, we've introduced a macro to make the source a little easier to read and write. (globalq x) is a macro form that expands to (system:global-symbol-value 'x) for any symbol x.

This macro was added by a patch released in July, 2009. This macro will not be defined if that patch has not been installed. See sys:update-allegro for information on downloading patches.

See smp.htm and multiprocessing.htm for more information on this macro and on multiprocessing.

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Documentation for Allegro CL version 8.1. This page is new in the 8.1 release.
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