How to put comments within formulas

Question

Has anyone played around with putting comments or labels within formulas? What I mean is to have a formula with several arguments, with some of them individually labeled with text.
If the arguments are cells, this often happens automatically if you have Use header cell names as references on, but in my situation, the source arguments only exist in the formula. And comments are nice, but they attach to the entire cell, not individual arguments.
What I'd like to do is a formula like this:
= 25 + 50
where I can tell that 25 is the number from May and 50 is the number from June.
Something like this would be ideal:
= 25["May"] + 50["June"]
but since there is not support for that in Numbers, the only way to do something like this is to fake it.
I have found three solutions:
=REPLACE("May",1,99,"25") + REPLACE("June",1,99,"50")
=IFERROR( NOT("May"), 25) + IFERROR( NOT("June"), 50)
=IF(TRUE,25,"May") + IF(TRUE,50,"June")
I prefer the last one, but none are particularly elegant. I wish I could find a single formula that takes just two arguments, the string and the value, and always outputs the value. The challenge is most formulas take cells or boolean expressions, not strings.
Can anyone else think of a more efficient way to do this?

Answer 1

Wayne, as I said twice previously, I am aware of using header cell names but that doesn't work since these values aren't referencing other cells. I only used May & June as an example.
Badunit, in my situation these formulas don't reference other cells or variables. I do that plenty often, but in this case these are many transient numbers that creating separate cells with headers would be too time consuming.
For example, I might be counting values for something I'm inventorying. An actual formula might look like:
= 10 + 25 + 22 + 5 + 15 + 5 + 2 + 160 + 5 + 5
That is the value for one location on one date; I have 12 locations, 100 dates with about 6 types of information to track, meaning 12 tables of 600 cells each already, 7200 cells total. I'm not going to also create 7200 separate tables with tens of thousands of cells to track each of those numbers separately; it's not that important and a big waste of time to do so.
But I do sometimes want to comment on discrepancies or unusual numbers. On the above, I might have written it as:
= 10 + 25 + 22 + 5 + 15 + 5 + 2 + IF(TRUE,160,"includes extra carryover from last week") + 5 + 5
Yes, comments are designed to do that. But they don't always make things easier: they are an extra place to enter information and look for it, and some people might miss it. The next day when someone updates the formula with changed values, they may not notice the comment, or they have to click back & forth to see what parts of the comment refer to what. If there are several commented values and they need to delete or change a certain one, it is easy at a glance to do so correctly.
I'm not saying there aren't other ways of doing this. I'm just saying in some limited circumstances inline comments could be time savers when you have a lot of data entry, and I was wondering if others had thought about solving the problem.