Your example is hideously flawed, why don't you compare creation of a list with creation of a list / vector rather than an if statement. The equivalent lisp (c

Your example is hideously flawed, why don't you compare creation of a list with creation of a list / vector rather than an if statement. The equivalent lisp (clojure) to your python example (if (not (nil? object))) Is very simple to read, even if you hate parens.