Create new local from C?

["J. Perkins" <jason@...>]

Okay, I read the manual this time and even tried searching the 
archives, so now I can safely ask...

Is there some trick I can use to create a local variable in a chunk 
from C? What I'm trying to is create Lua function like:

	CreateNewType("NewTypeName")

Which will do some bookkeeping on the C side, and then set a local 
variable named "NewTypeName". Must be local. I know I can do

	local NewTypeName = CreateNewType("NewTypeName")

I'm just trying to be overly clever. ;)

Thanks,
Jason
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