The audacity to do such a thing…
The answer is writing a program that writes the variables dynamically to a file and including that file into the source file that uses them.
No need to thank me folks I’m just trying to make the world a better place.
Or in JavaScript you can build a string that creates the name of a variable in a sub loop by concatenating ““variable”+$i” and passing that value into a variable that is then read as the name of an incremental variable that a value is then passed to.
This has the advantage of being both extremely unwieldy and highly inscrutable, and there’s a small chance it will make your coworkers send you death threats in slack.