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Parse, don’t validate
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A list can store zero or more elements. A
NonEmptycan store one or more element. That's all.This overall strategy -- representing the top of a list as a dedicated value -- shows up elsewhere, notably in Forths, where it is called "top of stack" and often stored in a dedicated CPU register.