Björn Linse wrote:

> > The NULL is supposed to be the same as an empty, mutable list.  This is
> > tricky, because code that expects a list needs to check for the NULL and
> > create the list if needed.
> 
> how could this be possible?
> 
> let x = getreg("a",1,1) " returns NULL
> let y = x
> call add(x, "text")
> 
> now x is created, but y is still NULL, inconsistent with if x referred
> to an non-NULL empty list.

OK, yes, in that case it is different from a real empty list.
Do we really case about that?

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