alias A = B; syntax

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, October 15, 2012 23:18:33 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it was already decided that this would be added, but
> just hasn't made it in yet.

We'd have to dig through the newsgroup archives to be sure on that one. I'm 
pretty sure that it _wasn't_ decided that we'd add it, but I don't know for 
sure. But I don't think that it was entirely shot down either.

Personally, I'm so used to the current syntax at this point that I don't much 
care, and we'd have to add the new syntax on top of the current one (it would 
break too much code otherwise), which would arguably just complicate the 
language further. But it's certainly true that plenty of folks would prefer a 
syntax similar to assignment instead of the current syntax.

- Jonathan M Davis