Is it possible to make alias for a variable?

I would like to use a more convenient name for a variable, and keep the old name also, but I don't want to make a real copy. So it is possible to make an alias?

[dpb]

Create the useful name first, maybe???

There is no equivalent of EQUIVALENCE nor any other way to do this in Matlab that I'm aware of.

Answer 1

[WAT]

The short answer is no, you're describing something similar to a pointer.

Answer 2

[James Tursa]

The closest thing in MATLAB to this might be a classdef object derived from handle, where multiple variables actually "point" to the same data.