[erlang-questions] newbie: why c.erl is special?

[Christian S]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Bengt Kleberg
<bengt.kleberg@REDACTED> wrote:
>  In the book "Object Oriented Software Construction" Bertrand Meyer
>  argues (successfully in my opinion) that you need to have the ability to
>  rename (alias) modules. He also shows that this ability must be outside
>  of the language/modules themselves.

Providing my own aliases for other modules that I use is something I
have been wishing for.

Not having read the book, what does he mean with the ability must be
outside of the language?