[Openmcl-devel] process-run-function and "dynamic vs lexical"

[Taoufik Dachraoui]

I run the follwoing tests (1, 2 and 3) and cannot understand why  
process-run-function
seems to ignore the definition of the variable y  within the scope of  
the let

? (defvar y 1)
Y

<1>>>>> First using process-run-function

? (let ((x 2) (y 3))
     (labels ((f () (format t "~%x=~A y=~A~%" x y)))
       (ccl:process-run-function "test" #'f)))
#<PROCESS test(3) [Reset] #x8D43546>
?
x=2 y=1
?

<2>>>>> AND using funcall

? (let ((x 2) (y 3))
     (labels ((f () (format t "x=~A y=~A~%" x y)))
        (funcall #'f)))
x=2 y=3
NIL
?

<3>>>>  AND last

? (let ((x 2) (y 3)) (format t "x=~A y=~A~%" x y))
x=2 y=3
NIL
?


The last 2 tests are obviously what I expected but I do not understand
why when using process-run-function the y value within the new process
is 1 and not 3. How to explain this, it is really confusing for me?

Taoufik