Indirect variable reference

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sez bornstein at designeq.com:
>Is there a way to reference a variable through another variable in 
>Transcript?
>IOW, I'd like to do something like this:
>
>Repeat with i = 1 to 5
>  put "List"&i into theList
>  put i into value(theList)
>end repeat
>
>The idea is that I construct 5 variables, named list1, list2, list3, 
>list4, and list5 in the variable theList. Then I put a value in each of
>these variables through the referencing variable (theList). 
>
>The Value function is sort of what I have in mind (it first evaluates the
>expression) but, of course, it doesn't work in this fashion. Is there 
>another way to do this (am I missing something obvious) or is this not
>possible in Transcript?
   Not sure about Transcript, but in HyperTalk, the DO keyword does what you 
want:

repeat with K1 = 1 to (the number of items in ListOfVariables)
  do ("put item K1 of TheData into" && item K1 of ListOfVariables)
end repeat

   Hope this helps...