Perhaps it would make sense to export these to a separate Gnome::Constants module?
> On 29 Nov 2022, at 15:05, Marcel Timmerman <mt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 29-11-2022 10:13, Francis Grizzly Smit wrote: > > Hi Francis, >> >> Personally I never use \name are I hate how it looks, and so far I have >> never needed it, so unless I can find something it can do that I cannot do >> any other way, I'll keep on not using it >> > To show an example where I could use it I have defined a series of types in > the Gnome packages of mine and could then use it everywhere as a type. The > glib has several types defined which I wanted to use in my code so that I can > cut and paste the code from the C source into Raku source without much > changes. > > There is a file defined in Gnome::N where a list of types is defined > … > constant \gboolean is export = int32; > constant \gchar is export = int8; > constant \gdouble is export = num64; > constant \gfloat is export = num32; > constant \gint is export = int32; > … > > > And later in other modules I could then use these definitions, here for > example 'gint'. > > … > sub gtk_widget_add_events ( > N-GObject $widget, gint $events > ) is native(>k-lib) > { * } > … > > The types file is generated to cope with int sizes differing on several > implementations. E.g. a long int could be 32 or 64 bits depending on the > implementation or OS or chip or …. >