As long as we're bikeshedding, I've often thought that Lua should warm up to using `my` as a keyword in place of `local`. `let` doesn't convey that it's a scope keyword (LISP heritage notwithstanding), while `local` is long and `loc` is an eyesore.
Eyesore is a precise word for the local keyword, from what I see the variable names in scripts are usually short, and the local keyword seems to draw more attention than the variable names themselves.
Of course this can be alleviated with syntax highlighting that would slightly mute the local keyword. And, people using Lua they day probably learn to ignore the keyword automatically.
