While nosing around princ and friends, I wondered if princ-list could use mapc these days, per below. I suppose the byte code comes out about the same, but `mapc' on a small fixed-length list might in the future have a chance of being optimized to individual calls to , save some looping ops. (Presuming princ-list remains a defsubst so it expands. Personally I'd have been tempted not to bother inlining it.)