variable names from variables?

Subject: variable names from variables?
From: &quot;Patrick Mc(avery&quot; &lt;spell_gooder_now@<a href="/index.cgi/speech/http://lua-users.org/cgi-bin/echo.cgi?spellingbeewinnars.org">... &gt;
Date: 2011年2月02日 08:36:55 -0500

This code:
for i = 10, 1 do
local value .. i = {}
end

does not work, I am assuming it's because variables do not have typesonly values do?

Is there someway to automatically generate variable names?
Thanks for reading-Patrick

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