Is dynamic assignment possible?

By which I mean, is it possible to assign a value to a variable that is referenced in another variable? Other languages tend to have either an "eval" function to force a dereference, or
individual utility functions. Something like:

integer llSetFloatByName(string var_name, float value);

would do the trick, but I can't find anything similar.

Apologies in advance if this is an FAQ, but I've not found an answer in the usual places.

There is no eval-like statement. You can sort of kind of simulate it by having several other scripts in your object, and sending a link message to a given one which could be directed by the value of a variable. But it's hard to justify going through the trouble when some if-else statements could do the job instead.

Thanks for the speedy response. At least I can stop searching now. It looks as if I'm going to have to make a few compromises in programming style. I normally avoid multi-branched conditionals wherever possible,

yea ... heres what you do

take all knowledge of proper programing and burn it

then take really long makeshift framework and squash it into less than 16 k

course the advantage is the same as building, you get really good at optimizing