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  • Ok, here's a stoooopid question: Shouldn't this project be writing Win64::API?
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    "If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx
    • No, it is called the "Win32 API for 64-bit Windows" even by Microsoft. Well, at least it was for a while, now I think it is just called the "Windows API".

      Seriously, changing the module name would be very bad for writing portable scripts because you would then have to import different modules depending on the native size of your pointers. That's something you don't really care about at the Perl level.

      • Whoops. I forgot the smiley. As in: Shouldn't this project be writing Win64::API? :-)
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        "If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx
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