00:24 <jdhorwitz> when mentioning aliases in regards to Reference Capabilities, what is a good definition for what an alias is?

04:50 <vaninwagen> In my terms it is just another reference to the same object. This other reference wont have the same refcaps necessarily ( e.g iso -> !iso == tag)

13:46 <SeanTAllen> jdhorwitz: in the end an alias is another pointer to the thing. there's the underlying thing and there can be one or more references to it. "another name for a reference" is "an alias".