Larry,

>  You can always write a macro that does that.
>  [...] 
>  That won't work on a method name anyway unless you do it in the
>  dispatch class.
>  [...]
>  You'll have to write your own macro if you want to do that.

As I understood, you wrote down, how I can workaround it with macros, 
and why it wouldn't work well. As I see, there's no a nice solution to 
alias a method or a sub, even with macros.

But you didn't wrote, why are you against the 'alias'?

Bye,
   Andras