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In that situation you could simply represent `null` as a keyword :NULL, `false` as NIL and `[]` as a vector (or some other non-list datastructure).

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Exactly. Symbols are first-class runtime objects in CL, so just make up a symbol name for the various null-like values. Keywords are the easiest symbols for this purpose since they're package-agnostic.

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