Can you create anonymous code blocks in Lua?

Question

In programming languages such as C you can create an anonymous code block to limit the scope of variables to inside the block can the same be done with Lua?

If so what would be the Lua equivalent of the following C code?

void function()
{
    {
        int i = 0;
        i = i + 1;
    }

    {
        int i = 10;
        i = i + 1;
    }
}

Answer 1

You want to use do...end. From the manual:

A block can be explicitly delimited to produce a single statement:

stat ::= do block end

Explicit blocks are useful to control the scope of variable declarations. Explicit blocks are also sometimes used to add a return or break statement in the middle of another block

function fn()
    do
        local i = 0
        i = i + 1
    end
    do
        local i = 10
        i = i + 1
    end
end