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If it is realistic, it can be cute small improvement.

(map (lambda()(print $idx)) '(1 2 7)) ; 127

It would be more idiomatic for $idx to be the position of the current item in the list.
Anyway, it isn't necessary. Use dolist for that.

Jeff wrote:It would be more idiomatic for $idx to be the position of the current item in the list.

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(map (fn (x) (list $idx x)) '(1 2 3)) => '((0 1) (1 2) (2 3))

Anyway, it isn't necessary. Use dolist for that.

Yes, you are right about $idx as position on the list. I was not focused. True, it is not necessary, but it is still small improvement which could provide similar advantage to $idx in other loops, isn't it - if its implementation is equally (time, space, implementation effort) cheap.

I don't think so. It breaks convention. A function, even an anonymous function, takes arguments. What is it if there are multiple parameters, such as (map 'list '(1 2 3) '(4 5 6))? You could always write your own macro that did the same thing, but accepted an expression instead of a function.