This is a variation for a View of an AssignmentNode in the ColonFreeSyntax-di sample .
aBottle Gets aMessage .
I have always introduced Smalltalk Assignment with this syntax, verbally and in writing, to discuss the concept of what it means for aVariable to get anObject. Yep, including a real physical bottle ( or cutout tennis ball ) being passed around with a note stuffed inside it while I talk about Object, Class, Variable and Message.
Only when finished that discussion do I mention that Gets is written with a leftarrow symbol, typed with a shift-hyphen but still pronounced Gets. aBottle Gets aMessage . aBottle _ aMessage .
I definitely would like a View of an AssignmentNode available as a HumanPreference option with the foreign language style that Dan showed in his original with
Set aVariable to aValue .
Lantz
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