iterating initalizations

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Aaron Stepp <stepp.aaron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Aaron Stepp <stepp.aaron at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help so far, I think I'm starting to get a hang of the
>>> syntax.
>>>
>>> I think I need to state my goal more clearly.
>>>
>>> Instead of writing a long list of initializations like so:
>>>
>>> A = [ ]
>>> B = [ ]
>>> ...
>>> Y = [ ]
>>> Z = [ ]
>>>
>>> I'd like to save space by more elegantly turning this into a loop.  If I
>>> need to just write it out, I guess that's ok... but it would be much
>>> cleaner.  I'm a composer, not a programmer, so some of this is quite
>>> above
>>> me.
>>>
>>
>> So, are these variables supposed to be module-level, or attributes of
>> class pitchAndRhythm, or what?
>> Also, are you going to use the variables normally or are you going to
>> need "variable variables" (e.g. like $$var in PHP, which gives the
>> value of the variable with the name of the string stored in $var)?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
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>
>
> The're going to only be part of the pitchAndRhythm class.  Simply put, I
> just need enough arrays to hold a list of pitches/rhythms.  Then I'll have
> each list member returned to an instrument defined in another module.
>
> As I'm hacking away at the code, I'm realizing that maybe I can do this with
> just and A = [] and B = [].  But I'm not sure...
>

Do you really need to name them, or are the names arbitrary and you
only really care about having N distinct lists?

Cheers,
Chris

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