Miscellaneous handy goodies

[mnrvovrfc]

I will return to this to explain but mostly this is self-explanatory stuff.

If I were offering this code to other people I'd turn all those % into &&, and give a better name to that ln$ and change the input parameter type to && instead of !. This is so that it's useful with any integer type. What if you needed pretty-print for an _INTEGER64?

Also I prefer the "value&& * (-1)" instead of "-value&&" that somebody else proposed. It clearly explains what is going on. But then again this is a "toolbox" not meant for beginners trying to learn BASIC programming.

I was going to write something else just above but the following works, does give me -5 in Lua:

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value = 5
print(-value)

Those metatables are as slick as the programmer wants them to be...