Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Missing SW_* constants

[Jeremy W. <jez...@ho...>]

>>If the Win32::GUI::Constant package is a XS/C code we'll be able to come 
>>up with various algorithms that compress the text strings meaning the 
>>resulting dll could be relatively small.
>
>But that imports the name into the current package, which is true namespace 
>clutter, and using bare-name constants from the current package don't 
>reflect the origin of the constant, and using the fully-qualified name 
>anyway to reflectt the origin of the constant is extremely long.

I think that's what Win32::GUI does now, it pollutes each name space if 
Win32::GUI () is used - hence I was loosing around 100k per package.

>So if all this could be achieved with Win32::GUI::Constant, why could it 
>not be achieved with Win32::GUI directly?

The advantage of having a separate package/dll is that if you dont want to 
use it, you dont have to - this could become an important issue if the 
constant code becomes large (especally if it's generated automatically via 
the headers).

>Importing exactly the constants used (per your first example) into the 
>local namespace would (I guess) allow the performance speedup of inlined 
>constants, which May may like.

I think so too - but I'm not 100% sure:)

Cheers,

jez.