title: How to define maps in Groovy
body: <p>I want to make a series of maps, such as <code>map1, map1, map3, etc...</code>  and I want to do this with a loop.  This does not work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>for (i = 1; i++){
  
      def map[ i ]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>how can I make this happen?</p>