AutoIt instead of AHK for assignments OK?

[4wd]

Since I have way too much time on my hands I thought I might as well start learning something again.

What I'd like to know is can I do the AHK assignments in AutoIt instead?

[mouser]

absolutely. 

[shmuel1]

In AutoIt, you can use the HotKeySet function.
You can also use _IsPressed() together with #Include <Misc.au3>. This works a little differently.

See:
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/HotKeySet.htm
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IsPressed.htm