[Help-bash] initialize ten variables with a loop for

[Gerard ROBIN]

Hello,
I want to initialize ten variables : el1, el2, ... el10 :

for i in `seq 10`; do el$i=0; done

bash: el1=0: command not found
bash: el2=0: command not found
bash: el3=0: command not found
bash: el4=0: command not found
bash: el5=0: command not found
bash: el6=0: command not found
bash: el7=0: command not found
bash: el8=0: command not found
bash: el9=0: command not found
bash: el10=0: command not found

what is wrong in what I did?

and how can I achieve that ?

Thanks.

-- 
Gérard