VAR can be used with a string to refer to an array, but not to an element in an array. This complicates my plans.

I'm curious. What was your plan?

I'm working on a library of general-purpose GUI elements, and I wanted to use strings to store "pointers" to various variables. I found a work-around, and it actually simplified a lot of my design quite a lot. So it turned out to be a good thing!