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A typically shorter name for a Class, especially useful when the Class's name is particularly long. Aliases for long names become useful in action language. Compare these two statements in Scrall:

my aircraft .= /R1/AC( Tail number: in.ID )

as opposed to the slightly longer

my aircraft .= /R1/Aircraft( Tail number: in.ID )

The second example is preferable in the example above since it is easier to read. But a really long name such as Aircraft In Attack Formation might work better with an abbreviation such as AC_ATTACK.

An alias is optional since some developers may wish to just use full class names universally, or most of the time, and not bother with devising a set of aliases.

Identifiers

1. Name + Domain
2. Class + Domain

Attributes

Name

A short name

Type: Alias Name, based on Name (style suggestion: all caps with underscore delimiters with a limit of 16 characters)