> This doesn't feel right to me. By that argument, people would want
> to "improve"
>
> (mapcar (lambda (x) (car x)) list-of-lists)
>
> to
>
> (mapcar list-of-lists (x) (car x))
>
> Have you ever heard someone complain about that lambda, though?
Welllll.... Shouldn't you have written
(mapcar car list-of-lists)
or am I missing something painfully obvious?