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 ### Lists
 
-There is no way to get the length of a list. If you find yourself
-wanting to do this kind of thing, you're trying to do too much work in
-the build.
+Aside from telling empty lists from non empty lists (`a == []`), there is no
+way to get the length of a list. If you find yourself wanting to do this kind
+of thing, you're trying to do too much work in the build.
 
 Lists support appending: