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. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
