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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> 
> (dolist (var (some-thing))
>    ...)

Wouldn't it have been much nicer if the map syntax had been

(mapc list func) so you could just write the nice and pure

(mapc some-thing
   (lambda (var)
   ....))

Jan