Synonyms so people can use what words they want

[jmeaster30]

This would be adding aliases for words that have interchangeable meanings. I already have an alias for 'transform' called 'function'. We could add aliases for a lot more things like all the operators.

Pros:

• Vore is about flexibility and my goal is to have a programming language that feels like it isn't even there
• We could add aliases for multiple languages so people who are used to typing in a language other than english are able to comfortably use Vore as well

Cons:

• Telling the difference between the same word in different contexts (although we kind of do this already with 'end' as in 'line end' and 'end' to end a code block)
• This would allow people to use the different aliases in the same source file
  • Difficult to maintain (vore code is not supposed to be a 500 line file)
  • An advantage this code has is it is so similar to english that people may be able to read over it in context as if it was just a synonym

[jmeaster30]

The more and more I think about this, the more I really want to have it.

My reasoning is this language was meant to fix the issue with regex where it is super difficult to remember what each rune means and when to use them. I don't want to just move the problem from the user remember a 1 or 2 character sequence to remembering what word to use. Thus, I believe the correct move is to allow for more aliases for things based on synonyms so people just have to remember the intent of each command/operation instead of being forced to remember a specific word

[jmeaster30]

I still want to be careful with the aliases as too many could be confusing too