[HN Gopher] NIL
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       NIL
        
       Author : susam
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-07-18 12:15 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | dreamcompiler wrote:
       | NIL is certainly an overly-overloaded concept in Common Lisp.
       | Scheme did a better job by separating the boolean type from the
       | empty list but in practice I don't find NIL much of a hindrance
       | in CL.
        
       | JasonFruit wrote:
       | I've been writing a bunch of Common Lisp recently, where I
       | usually have been more interested in Schemes. I'm less bothered
       | by its little inconsistencies, like the empty list not needing to
       | be quoted, than I used to be. Maybe because I'm getting older,
       | and people develop cruft just like programming languages. I'm not
       | really small and elegant anymore, so why should my Lisp be?
        
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