Hi,

I'm still interested in, why "alias" wouldn't be a native Perl 6 term?

I think, there are several reasons for "alias":

- in natural languages, synonims are very often - alias is a synonim
- in Perl 6, currently there's no way to create a reference to a
   variable, _with the context of the variable_, too (binding just give
   me possibility to bind a variable into another, but the new variable
   won't be automatically have the same context, as the binded one)

Some new examples, maybe better than before:

sub kilobytes ($value:) is export {
	return $value*1024;
}
alias kilobytes, kilobyte;

So both routines will be an exported one. You can use this code then:

   say 1.kilobyte;
   say 2.kilobytes;

Bye,
   Andras

BÁRTHÁZI András wrote:
>  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
>