lua: 🎉 FIRST PASS! verybig.lua — io.output/stdout stubs + os.remove→true → 1/16 (6.2%)

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+- 2026-04-24: lua: **🎉 FIRST PASSING PUC-Rio TEST — 1/16 runnable (6.2%)**. `verybig.lua` now passes: needed `io.output`/`io.input`/`io.stdout`/`io.stderr` stubs, made `os.remove` return `true` (test asserts on it), and added `dofile`/`loadfile` stubs. All cumulative fixes (returns/break/scoping/escapes/precedence/vararg/tonumber-trim) combined make this test's full happy path work end-to-end. 372 unit tests. Failure mix: 10× assertion / 4× timeout / 1× call-non-fn.
 - 2026-04-24: lua: scoreboard iteration — **proper `break` via guard+raise sentinel** (`lua-brk`) + auto-first multi-values in arith/concat. Loop break dispatch was previously a no-op (emitted bare `'lua-break-marker` symbol that nothing caught); converted to raise+catch pattern, wrapping the OUTER invocation of `_while_loop`/`_for_loop`/`_repeat_loop`/`__for_loop` in a break-guard (wrapping body doesn't work — break would just be caught and loop keeps recursing). Also `lua-arith`/`lua-concat`/`lua-concat-coerce` now `lua-first` their operands so multi-returns auto-truncate at scalar boundaries. 372/372 green (+4 break tests). Scoreboard: 10×assert / 4×timeout / 2×call-non-fn (no more undef-symbol or compare-incompat).
 - 2026-04-24: lua: scoreboard iteration — **proper early-return via guard+raise sentinel**. Fixes long-logged limitation: `if cond then return X end ...rest` now exits the enclosing function; `rest` is skipped. `lua-tx-return` raises `(list 'lua-ret value)`; every function body and the top-level chunk + loadstring'd chunks wrap in a guard that catches the sentinel and returns its value. Eliminates "compare incompatible types" from constructs.lua (past line 40). 368/368 green (+3 early-return tests).
 - 2026-04-24: lua: scoreboard iteration — **unary-minus / `^` precedence fix**. Per Lua spec, `^` binds tighter than unary `-`, so `-2^2` should parse as `-(2^2) = -4`, not `(-2)^2 = 4`. My parser recursed into `parse-unary` and then let `^` bind to the already-negated operand. Added `parse-pow-chain` helper and changed the `else` branch of `parse-unary` to parse a primary + `^`-chain before returning; unary operators now wrap the full `^`-chain. Fixed `constructs.lua` past assert #3 (moved to compare-incompatible). 365/365 green (+3 precedence tests).