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ALIAS in R3 provides external access to the internal aliasing facility that is used to implement case insensitivity of words. Aliasing can be proven to be safe when used for case insensitivity, but has many problems when used between word spellings that differ by something other than case. See #341, #1163, #1164 and #1165 for details.
In R2 ALIAS could be used as a (bad) way to internationalize REBOL code. In R3 even that doesn't work, partly because system/words doesn't exist anymore. With modules we have much better ways to internationalize code if we have to, so the downsides of ALIAS aren't worth it anymore.
This is not a proposal to remove the internal aliasing facility, including the STRICT-* and /case consideration of it. This is just a request to get rid of the ALIAS function if it is just a wrapper for that facility. If the ALIAS function is used internally and so can't be removed, put it in the sys context and hide it with PROTECT-SYSTEM, since some of the problems it causes are security bugs.
Also, dismiss #1212.
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