__gtype and constants

Two things. 1. I hacked in a static class variable called '__gtype' which contains the GType object corresponding to the class it's in. For example, GtkButton::$__gtype will give you the GType object for it. To get the actual value of the type, GtkButton::$__gtype->type. Nifty or not? 2. I am trying to figure out how to go about doing constants. I can either leave them in the global namespace, e.g. GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL, or I can move into each class' namespace, e.g. GtkWindow::TOPLEVEL. The access to the second version is a tad slower than the first, but I think it achieves a nice encapsulation. Thoughts? -Andrei * DOS is, quite possibly, the worst text-adventure game ever. *