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─────ALIAS Attribute────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
     Defines an external name for a variable, subprogram or common
     block. Within the source file the compiler only recognizes the
     name used in the variable's (or subprogram's or common block's)
     declaration. Outside the source file the compiler recognizes only
     the external name.
 
     ALIAS is also valid in an INTERFACE statement for redefining the
     name of a subprogram in another source file.
 
     Alias names are character constants and therefore case sensitive.
     For example, these two aliases are different:
 
     SUBROUTINE FillScreen [ALIAS:'CLEARSCREEN']
     SUBROUTINE BlankScreen [ALIAS:'clearscreen']
 
     Restrictions: Cannot apply to formal arguments
 
     See Also: ◄Formal Argument►
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