[Cs254f11] Simple question - def and concat

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

You could create a vector of melodies instead, sticking the created 
melody into a different position in the vector each time through the loop.
    -Josiah


Jesse French wrote:
> Hi all, very simple question related to this function:
>
> (defn new-pop
>   [popsize length]
>   (loop [loopcount 1]
>     (if (< loopcount popsize)
>       (def melody (new-melody length))
>       (recur (inc loopcount)))))
>
> This works, but I'd like to def a different "melody (new-melody length)" each time. Basically, each run through the loop should create a unique melody with a unique name - my hope was to just name it 'melody' with the count appended.
>
> My first thought was to do this:
>
>       (def (concat "melody" (loopcount)  (new-melody length))
>
> But I am running into problems each time I try a different way. One obvious problem is the different data types involved, but even if I pass it a working concat statement def will not accept a statement that begins this way.
>
> Any ideas for getting around this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse
>
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Wm. Josiah Erikson
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Hampshire College
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