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In Lisp, if you want to read text into symbols (e.g. file of words), you just switch to a dedicated package in which those symbols are interned. Then if NIL hap
by kazinator 2y ago
In Lisp, if you want to read text into symbols (e.g. file of words), you just switch to a dedicated package in which those symbols are interned. Then if NIL happens to come up, it will be a symbol named "NIL" in that package, unrelated to the special object.