OK, I stand corrected. Statically-typed minds also frown on this. It might be only Lispers that feel differently (after all, they've been conflating an empty

OK, I stand corrected. Statically-typed minds also frown on this. It might be only Lispers that feel differently (after all, they've been conflating an empty list, a boolean false, and a symbol NIL and insisting it's the right thing).