CallByName?

(apply F argument-list)

Oh wait, this isn't Lisp. :P Things like optional function arguments and the ability to take any # of arguments to a function sure are nice though. Hmm, how to replicate that in Bmax...

I think your best bet is either a TMap or even better, a THashtable of string keys and function pointers, like Flame mentioned. I'd recommend my Hashtable class here - http://www.blitzmax.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1907

You could still make an easy interface such as "CallByName( "F", your-list-of-arguments-here-as-a-TList) - just implement that as a wrapper function. The pseudo-code for CallByName would look something like this if you always passed your additional arguments in as a list (arguable more flexible than an array in this case), and your functions always had the same return type (int in this example)

Function CallByName( func_name:string , arg_list:tlist )

  '--first create a function pointer, and then lookup the function
  '--in the hash table
  local Func:int( args:tlist ) = Hash_Function_Table.GetEntry( func_name)

  '--call the function and pass it the argument list that was passed to CallByName, the function itself will take apart 
  '--this list however it is appropriate for that function to do so. The function itself should report an error if the 
  '--wrong arguments are passed in (there's no way for "CallByName" to know this as it's just a wrapper.)
 Func( arg_list )

EndFunction