[PD-dev] pd-extended loadlib request

[Chris McCormick]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:31:26PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> >What other programming language has aliases?
> 
> Ruby accepts both 'indices' and 'indexes' as selectors in the Array and 
> Hash classes. Ruby has 'alias' as a reserved word.
> 

Perl has so many redundant language constructs for doing the same thing
multiple ways that it's not even worth mentioning them all (And that is
considered by Perl programmers as a major feature of the language).

PHP has aliases for heaps and heaps of functions (eg is_int == is_integer).

Haskell's 'type' keyword effectively creates an alias from sub-types.

Javascript has the 'with' statement that is similar to aliasing and JS
also allows you to declare variables/functions/objects in multiple ways
with different syntax.

Many languages have a shortened form of if statement that is effectively
a low-syntax alias for the regular if statement.

Best,

Chris.

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