Re: retrieve variable name

On Sunday, December 15, 2013 6:12:21 PM UTC+1, ZyX wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2013 8:56 PM, "Alexandre Hoïde" <alexand...@gmail.com> wrote:ie
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > <--
> > let s:vara = 1
> > let s:varb = 2
> > let s:vars = [ s:vara, s:varb ]
> > for mvar in s:vars
> > echo ?name_of_var?(mvar)
> > endfor
> > --> would print
> > s:vara
> > s:varb
> > --
> >
> > Any suggestion for ?name_of_var?
>
> Not possible.
>
> This looks like XY problem. What for do you need such thing?

I had the exact same reaction. More information about the actual use
case is needed.

But I'll note that Vim has the curious "curly braces name" device that
gives you a kind of indirection/some control over the name of a
variable:

" Prints variables vara and varb
for var in ['a', 'b']
echo var{var}
endfor

See :h curly-braces-name. (But then why not just use a map?)

Best,

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