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<gtrak> hey, I figured this might be the place to ask, but do bencode and implementations support an empty-list encoding, like 'le'? 
<gtrak> because I have one impl that's producing it (clojure), and another that can't read it correctly (emacs elisp), I didn't write either :-)
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<TheSHAD0W> Empty list should be in the spec.
<TheSHAD0W> You may need to fix that lisp implementation.
<gtrak> yea, cool. 
<gtrak> I'm guessing null isn't :-)
<gtrak> but I can use empty-list for the relevant logic
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<gtrak> the clojure impl encodes nil as empty-list, so that's something.
<gtrak> empty-list is truthy and rarely used in clojure but falsy in elisp/CL, so I assume it's on purpose.
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<TheSHAD0W> No, null is not part of the spec.
<TheSHAD0W> Empty string is also part of the spec I think...
<gtrak> my encoder does it as '0:'
-*- TheSHAD0W nods
<gtrak> (round-trip ["" nil]) => l0:lee => ["" []]
<gtrak> seems to work with dicts too