nil in Smalltalk is an object itself, so if you want to build something Option-like with it, this is pretty straightforward to implement. Considering that Citri

nil in Smalltalk is an object itself, so if you want to build something Option-like with it, this is pretty straightforward to implement. Considering that Citrine claims that "everything is an object", this should also be the case there, so I don't really see a problem with that.