Angular 4: setting the local variable # dynamically

Question

Is there a way to dynamically set the #id, the HTML attribute that angular uses to construct the @ViewChild element reference?

Specific need: i have the following te

Answer 1

Despite the seeming resemblance between regular variables and #, multiple elements can be assigned to single local template reference variable:

Which can be obtained with:

@ViewChildren('linkRef') linkRefs;