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Common Lisp/Reference/defvar
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The defvar special form defines variables with a global scope. The following example declares a global variable with the symbol "temperature" and sets its value to 20:
> (defvar temperature 20)
TEMPERATURE
> (print temperature)
20
20
See also
defparameter
defconstant
defparameter