Alternate syntax ( AssignmentNode )

Lantz Rowland lantz at aabysgallery.com
Sat Jun 10 12:09:45 UTC 2000


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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