I often encounter this problem in the form of newbies asking how to dynamically create variables inside a loop: "foo1 on the first iteration, foo2 on the secon

I often encounter this problem in the form of newbies asking how to dynamically create variables inside a loop: "foo1 on the first iteration, foo2 on the second, etc." As much as I am a fun of weird little endeavors like programmatically modifying the local scope, my answer is usually along the lines of "...arrays."