Manifest constants - why not 'alias' ?

[mandel]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:28:19 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

> Robert Fraser wrote:
>>> alias Y 42;
>>> alias Z "abc";
>>> alias X [1,2,3];
> 
> And the above is also backwards from current alias syntax.  The newly
> defined thing goes on the right, not the left.
> 
> --bb

oops, that wasn't intended. :)