dst = src rather than src dst

[Nathan Reed]

Kirk McDonald wrote:
> The fact that the syntax looks nothing like assignment underscores the 
> fact that /it is not an assignment/. I would classify the proposal as a 
> foolish consistency, but I wouldn't really care if it were added. 
> (Except that adding redundant syntaxes for the same operation is rarely 
> a good idea.)
> 

I second the proposal someone already made of allowing

alias Foo as Bar;

This doesn't look like an assignment, but makes the declaration more 
readable and allows one to easily remember which identifier is the alias 
being created (at least, if one is a native English speaker...) at the 
slight cost of adding the keyword 'as'.  The 'as' could be optional so 
as not to break existing code.

Thanks,
Nathan Reed