[Insight-developers] Get vs. Compute

[Nick Tustison]

Thanks, Luis, for the explanation.  I ask not for anything specific, just
was curious about guidelines.
On May 29, 2011 9:04 AM, "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Is this for a Filter-like class ?
> or for a Calculator-like class ?
>
> In a Filter, you may want to stick to using "Get" only
> to return values of (or references to) member variables.
>
> In a Calculator, we have used "Get" in the past to do
> both : trigger the computation, and return the outcome.
>
> Note also, that now that the DataObjectDecorators
> are available, there is less motivation for having
> "Calculator" classes, and we could always have
> "Filter" classes, since their output can now be
> simple data types (decorated as objects).
>
>
> Luis
>
>
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> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Nicholas Tustison <ntustison at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I remember seeing information somewhere about guidelines for
>>  nomenclature of functions and I was hoping somebody could point
>> me to it.  Or maybe i'm misremembering but I was hoping somebody
>> could help me out.
>>
>> Specifically, for example, is there some guidelines as to whether or
>> not one should name a function GetValue() vs. ComputeValue() vs.
>> GenerateValue() vs. CalculateValue(), etc.?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nick
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