Task

Demonstrate a language's methods of:

   variable declaration
   initialization
   assignment
   datatypes
   scope 
   referencing,     and 
   other variable related facilities


a = 1    -- Here we declare a numeric variable
fruit = "banana"    -- Here we declare a string datatype
needspeeling = True    -- This is a boolean
local b = 2    -- This variable declaration is prefixed with a scope modifier 