FW: [Insight-developers] Passing arrays of parameters around: adding itk::FixedArray<> ?

[Lydia Ng]

> Or would DynamicArray lead people to believe that they could=20
> change its length
> after constructor time?

I agree - the term DynamicArray would lead people to think that
they can resize the length.

I would be happy with FixedArray and Array.

- Lydia


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miller, James V (CRD) [mailto:millerjv@crd.ge.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 6:36 AM
> To: 'Luis Ibanez'; Lydia Ng
> Cc: insight-developers@public.kitware.com
> Subject: RE: [Insight-developers] Passing arrays of parameters around:
> adding itk::FixedArray<> ?
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> Do we want FixedArray and Array or an Array (which is fixed)=20
> and a DynamicArray?
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> Or would DynamicArray lead people to believe that they could=20
> change its length
> after constructor time?
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> The reason I ask is that I will probably be writing a=20
> DynamicJoinImageFilter which would join N input
> images forming a vector image whose length is not known at=20
> the time the filter is constructed, making
> it different from the current JoinImageFilter. I am wondering=20
> if I should pick a different name.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez@kitware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:23 AM
> To: Lydia Ng
> Cc: insight-developers@public.kitware.com
> Subject: [Insight-developers] Passing arrays of parameters around:
> adding itk::FixedArray<> ?
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> How about adding a variant of itk::Array<>, templated only over
> the representation type and defining the Dimension (once and for all)
> at construction time ( a bit like the vnl_vector_fixed class ).
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> We could rename the current itk::Array<>  as itk::FixedArray<> and
> add this new variant. Its code will be almost a copy of the current
> itk::Array<>.
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>      Luis
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> Lydia Ng wrote:
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> >As a group should we lock down on a consistent way of passing
> >around a variable sized array for all filters
> >- in some places people have used (T *) and in other
> >places people have used (std::vector<T> &)
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> >Comments?
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> >- Lydia
> >
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