On Monday, 7 September 2015 at 19:06:48 UTC, Prudence wrote:
It's called encapsulation. It prevents namespace pollution and identifier collision.
This is already provided by the D module system. Even if you were to define a WM_CREATE in your code, it would not cause a major problem with the Win32 name because you can disambiguate via the imports. (That's also a minor hassle, but it is more rare for these long names than a short name like WM anyway!)
My editor already autocompletes WM_* names anyway, but again, the D module system can help with that too if you didn't want the keyword based completion I use for that.
I just don't see any advantage here to counterbalance the pain of changing it.
