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<h3 class="section">12.2 Special Variables</h3>
<p>The interaction of special variables with multiple threads is mostly
as one would expect, with behaviour very similar to other
implementations.
<ul>
<li>global special values are visible across all threads;
<li>bindings (e.g. using LET) are local to the thread;
<li>threads do not inherit dynamic bindings from the parent thread
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<p>The last point means that
<pre class="lisp"> (defparameter *x* 0)
(let ((*x* 1))
(sb-thread:make-thread (lambda () (print *x*))))
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<p>prints <code>0</code> and not <code>1</code> as of 0.9.6.
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