ACL2-PC::NIL

(macro) used for interpreting control-d
Major Section:  PROOF-CHECKER-COMMANDS

Example and General form:
nil
(or, control-d).

The whole point of this command is that in some Lisps (including akcl), if you type control-d then it seems, on occasion, to get interpreted as nil. Without this command, one seems to get into an infinite loop.