dst = src rather than src dst

[Bill Baxter]

Nathan Reed wrote:
> 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.
> 

I wouldn't say it's totally unambiguous.
When I first read it just now I thought "foo as bar ... we're going to 
refer to foo as bar. Wait, that sounds just like the current alias?!"

Whereas I can't think of any way someone could misinterpret which is the 
new and which is the old in "alias Foo = Bar;"

--bb