#### 9.2.41 abort [Restart]

#### Data Arguments Required::

None.

#### Description::

The intent of the abort restart is to allow return to the innermost “command level.” Implementors are encouraged to make sure that there is always a restart named abort around any user code so that user code can call abort at any time and expect something reasonable to happen; exactly what the reasonable thing is may vary somewhat. Typically, in an interactive listener, the invocation of abort returns to the Lisp reader phase of the Lisp read-eval-print loop, though in some batch or multi-processing situations there may be situations in which having it kill the running process is more appropriate.

#### See Also::

Restarts, Interfaces to Restarts, invoke-restart , abort (Function) (function)