dst = src rather than src dst

[Christopher Wright]

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;

Is that:
class Bar;
alias Foo as Bar; // treat identifier Foo the same as Bar

or:
class Foo;
alias Foo as Bar; // refer to Foo as Bar

And I'm a native English speaker.

On the other hand, the equals sign is quite unambiguous because it's a 
close analogy to existing assignments.