'local' is too long, yes -- I wish they'd used 'let' or even Perl's 'my'. But syntactically distinguishing declarations from assignments was totally the right d

'local' is too long, yes -- I wish they'd used 'let' or even Perl's 'my'. But syntactically distinguishing declarations from assignments was totally the right decision. (I wonder if anyone's made a more Python-like frontend to Lua. Coffeelua?)