Re: [Kawa-commonlisp-dev] Fwd: Switching to Guile's #nil

[Per Bothner]

John Cowan wrote:
> FWIU, in Kawa the the Scheme equivalent of Lisp's NIL is the empty list.
> I wanted to explore the possibility of adopting Guile's convention of
> using a separate object notated #nil in Scheme.

I don't have time right now to write about this except to note
that I've been thinking about using Java null for Lisp nil.
That improves Lisp/Java interoperability, and may not hurt
Lisp/Scheme interoperability (depending on the details).
The later may not matter so much anyway.
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