The way Clojure handles nulls is ideal for a dynamically typed language. In Clojure, a nil is a perfectly valid object, and it is also a sequence (it's the empt

The way Clojure handles nulls is ideal for a dynamically typed language. In Clojure, a nil is a perfectly valid object, and it is also a sequence (it's the empty list equivalent). That means that most standard library functions have no problems letting nil flow through them, returning nil. It winds up being quite similar to monadic Option/Maybe, although with no guarantees.