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Re: GSOC | Extending Common Lisp support

* Jamison Hope [2012-06-10 05:08] writes:

> #!null needs to remain a distinct value, though, if only so that we
> can pass
> it to Java code. 

I also think that representing nil as the JVM null value would be quite
elegant.  There are ifnull/ifnonnull instructions that would be useful
for conditionals.  Also CL variables/slots/arrays that need to be
initialized to nil would match the JVM rules quite neatly.

Helmut
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