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atomic-conditional-setq

Arguments: symbol newval-form oldval-form

This special operator returns a boolean of success or failure to store the value into the symbol's value location. It is intended to be a synchronizing mechanism for symbols which represent variables shared by multiple threads. It is undefined for symbols which represent a purely local (i.e. non-shared) value. Currently, the interpreted form of atomic-conditional-setq accepts such local variables, but the compiler will signal an error if the variable is not special or closed-over.

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In an atomic operation, if the variable's current value is EQ to the old value then the new value is stored into the variable location and the special operator returns True. Otherwise, the new value is not stored, and the special-operator returns false. Note that none of the evaluations of the symbol as a variable, or of the newval-form, or of the oldval-form, are atomic; the only operations that are atomic are the comparison and store, if there is one.


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