Using vimscript lambdas with map

Vimscript has lambda functions, check them out with :help lambda.

You don't have to reference an argument with the a: prefix and returns are implicit.

Generally they take the form of:

:let Add = {a, b -> a + b}
:echo Add(1, 2)
 3

You can also pass a lambda to the map func:

:let fruits = ['apple', 'orange', 'banana']
:echo map(fruits, {key, val -> "key: " . key . " val: " . val})
['key: 0 val: apple', 'key: 1 val: orange', 'key: 2 val: banana']

Alwyas be careful with vim's map() though. It Mutates

To make sure you don't mutate the list you are mapping over, use copy().

:echo map(copy(fruits), {key, val -> "key: " . key . " val: " . val})