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# language improvements

- [Compound Assignments](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/compound-assignments.md)
- [Postfix and Prefix Operators](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/postfix-and-prefix-operators.md)
- [The Continue Statement](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/the-continue-statement.md)
- [Constant Variables](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/constant-variables.md)
- [Type Annotations](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/type-annotations.md)
- [Function Annotations](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/type-annotations/function-annotations.md)
- [Classes](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/classes.md)
- [Constructors](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/classes/constructors.md)
- [Templating](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/classes/templating.md)
- [Inheritance](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/classes/inheritance.md)
- [Encapsulation](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/classes/encapsulation.md)
- [Events](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/events.md)
- [Macros](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/macros.md)
- [Lenient](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/macros/lenient.md)
- [Comment](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/macros/comment.md)
- [C-Arrays](https://docs.luaplusplus.org/language-improvements/macros/c-arrays.md)