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[Joel Goldstick]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:
>> You could certainly use I as an index into a list called x.  This
>> doesn't look like a good idea though
>
>
> Can you explain more what's problematic with a list?
>
> My best understanding so far of the problem is that the original
> questioner is trying to compute a tabulation of results.  For example,
> I think they're trying to compute the squares of the numbers 1 up to
> some large number like 20.  In that scenario, lists seem like a
> reasonable representation for such a table.

Sorry for clumsy answer.  I was trying to say that using a list with i
as an index was a solution rather than trying to build names on the
fly with some text concatenated to the value of i

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Joel Goldstick
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