<div dir="ltr">/agree vtkMTimeType makes more sense.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Bill Lorensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.lorensen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1 Brad that makes sense. If there are no objections raised, I'll<br>
change vtkTypeMTime to vtkMTimeType.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Brad King <<a href="mailto:brad.king@kitware.com">brad.king@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 08/15/2016 04:14 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:<br>
>> vtkTypeMTime versus vtkMTimeType.<br>
><br>
> I have no strong preference but can add some info here.<br>
><br>
>> Most of vtk uses vtkFooType except in vtkType.h where<br>
>> vtkTypeFoo is preferred.<br>
><br>
> The naming in "vtkType.h" can be interpreted as a "vtkType" prefix<br>
> (much like vtkSomeClass) followed by the type name of interest.<br>
> This reads well only when the type name obviously corresponds to<br>
> a primitive type (e.g. Int64). The only reason vtkIdType appears<br>
> there is it was a natural place to adopt the definition.<br>
><br>
> For types naming abstract concepts it may not read as well<br>
> (e.g. vtkTypeId v. vtkIdType). The name vtkTypeMTime sounds<br>
> like it is somehow a modification time on types. The name<br>
> vtkMTimeType sounds like it is the type of a modification time.<br>
><br>
> -Brad<br>
><br>
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