What does Alias identifier do ?

Was just cheaking the docs and noticed Alias. Any info on this identifier ?

It's not in my docs.

*EDIT*

However Alias appears to accept an identifier, but not one that is already predefined and you can't seem to affect that identifier.
This compiles:

Alias a

*EDIT*
I'm guessing it's a C/C++ command.

It appears to allow you to create an Alias for a function.

Alias g:fdjsklfdkjsljkg

g()

Function fdjsklfdkjsljkg()
	Print "here"
End Function

Interesting, that could come in handy.

If you are looking for it in the docs, goto language references > identifiers.

Well, proceed with the confusion!

Seems pretty useless to me... unless you want to be odd and make a bunch of aliases for each function so that the user doesn't even have to check the command names most of the time - just guess. But that would get a bit bloated and you wouldn't be able to read others' code as easily.

It does seem pretty useless to me too since you can use function pointers with much more flexibility.

I can see one use in that you can Alias ReallyLongFunctionNames to something more simple.

Interesting... Alias is not a C++ feature - sounds more like an OS function used in command shells, to reference an 'object' via a different name - usally to shorten it. Not sure how it applies to a programming languange, but by simply having the feature, I'm sure we will end up seeing some creative uses for it :)

Unix has had it forever, and it has been introduced into the new Microsoft shell.

Cheers,

Stu

Well "Alias" was used in VisualBasic for example:

Public Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" ( ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long

But i cant seem to get alias to work like this in BlitzMax