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1.3 Aliases

An alias mechanism allows an arbitrary OSC address to be used in place of a real address. An alias message is provided to describe aliases:
$\begin{rail} alias : OSCAddress 'alias' (([1] OSCAlias (message \vert ) ) \vert [2]) \end{rail}$

[1] sets OSCAlias as an alias of OSCAddress. The alias may be optionally followed by a message string which is then taken as an implied message i.e. the alias is translated to OSCAddress message.
[2] removes OSCAddress aliases.

EXAMPLE

/ITL/scene/myobject alias '/1/fader1'

makes the object myobject addressable using the address /1/fader1.

NOTE Regular expressions are not supported by the alias mechanism and could lead to unpredictable results.

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