Improve clarity for treating null for List values
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As mentioned in #83, we had left the treatment of input `null` by a List value ambiguous, while there is an intended behavior. Because of the existing language, it's easy to misinterpret providing `null` to `[String]` as the value `[null]`, while the correct interpretating would be `null`.
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As mentioned in #83, we had left the treatment of input `null` by a List value ambiguous, while there is an intended behavior. Because of the existing language, it's easy to misinterpret providing `null` to `[String]` as the value `[null]`, while the correct interpretating would be `null`.
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As mentioned in #83, we had left the treatment of input
nullby a List value ambiguous, while there is an intended behavior.Because of the existing language, it's easy to misinterpret providing
nullto[String]as the value[null], while the correct interpretating would benull.