I think there's a lot to like about this approach, especially persisting my intent.

I think it will be interesting to see how this plays out when it comes time to debug.

At that time, someone else may be reading my pseudo code and implicitly assuming that the code was translated correctly. If the code wasn't translated correctly, wouldn't the human who naturally assumes it was miss the bug every time?

Huzzah would benefit from having a guard identify pseudo code with two potential interpretations and ask the human to clarify so the reliability of the interpretation does not suffer.