"Joseph McDonald" <joe / vpop.net> writes:

> > However, you might want to think about alternative designs to get the
> > same effect... this is going to get messy pretty quickly :)
> 
> Yes.  very messy.  OK, here's another question.  Is it possible
> to get the "name" of a variable that is passed as an argument.

You could pass it in as a symbol. Would that help?

     a.setvars(:i, :j)

Dave