BUTFIRSTS list BFS list outputs a list containing the BUTFIRST of each member of the input list. It is an error if any member of the input list is empty or an array. (The input itself may be empty, in which case the output is also empty.) This could be written as to butfirsts :list output map "butfirst :list end but is provided as a primitive in order to speed up the iteration tools MAP, MAP.SE, and FOREACH.