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		vlowther on Sept 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SICL – A fresh implementation of Common Lisp That nil does double duty as boolean false and shorthand for '(). Scheme got it right with #f not being the same thing as '()

sedachv on Sept 9, 2014 [–]

I'm in the minority, but that's something that annoys me about Scheme. Lisp-style list processing code is more concise when nil is false. I also think array-processing or Haskell list style code is better than Lisp style list code, so IMO most Scheme code ends up with the worst of both worlds.

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