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Re:Better Java – Resources for Writing Modern Java by Peaker on Sunday September 20, 2015 @02:43AM (#10246764)
When some ELisp code crashes in my emacs with an error like:

  error: (stringp nil): not a string
I think it indicates Lisps suffer from this problem too...
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Re:Better Java – Resources for Writing Modern Java by agumonkey on Sunday September 20, 2015 @07:47AM (#10247210)
It does, I said 'a lot less' not 'zero dollar mistake'. Recursively defined lists take care about nil, and since it's one of the most used ways to program in lisp it makes a lot of logic nullproof.
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