Wed Jun 23 10:38:26 2010: Request 58579 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by SMUELLER
Queue: Wx
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #58579] Compile Wx constants without exporting
Wx constants
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Requestors: ad...@cpan.org
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Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58579 >
Hi Adam,
Adam Kennedy via RT wrote:
> Tue Jun 22 07:27:02 2010: Request 58579 was acted upon.
> Subject: Compile Wx constants without exporting Wx constants
> use Wx ();
>
> my $value = Wx::wxDefaultPosition;
Without saying anything about whether the following is good or not: The
reason it works like this is that the constants are generated via
AUTOLOAD. They are listed in Constant.xs.
I wonder why Wx doesn't use ExtUtils::Constant to generate the constants
(also using AUTOLOAD, usually). EU::Constant can generate code that is
likely more efficient than the repeated call to strEQ. Is it because of
the ifdefs on wxWidgets versions? Would it be worthwhile to patch
EU::Constant to allow for this kind of conditional code generation?
If we assumed somebody wanted all those constants anyway, we could
generate the XSUBs at XS compile time.
--Steffen
