Any way to pass a variable into name of new variable?

Looking to centralize some code, where the code can be called from a variety of different places, and output different variable names. Is there anyway to dynamically generate a variable name like this?

(Types = front, side, back)
[set type]side[/set]

[pass vars]
[set {TYPE}]value[/set]
[/pass]

[get side]