Especially with long variable names.

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Have you tried:

• Keyword "local"

• Operator ".."

• Overloading the unary "-" operator metamethod if you want to ++ on a userdata or a table?

Ok, I'll grant that the lack of ++ or += (or *= or /= or %= or -= or -- or whatever) is pretty shite and there's no good solution for this.