[vtk-developers] Data structures in VTK

[Simon Warfield]

Does it really make sense to continue to avoid using STL ?

If vendor STLs are still too incompatible and not compliant with the standard,
then one option would be to use a drop in replacement for vendor STL such 
as STLport http://www.stlport.com/product.html

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:41:25AM -0500, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Recently I needed for a related project hash table and a dynamic array.
> Since STL is not very portable, VTK does not use STL at all. However,
> if you look through VTK's source code, you will find several different
> implementation of these data structures. For example hash table is
> implemented in vtkDebugLeaks, vtkInstatiator vtkJavaUtil, etc.
> 
> I suggest we add to VTK some generic data structures such as hash
> table, array list and linked list. These classes would not get wrapped
> and would be only used internally for VTK's classes and potentially
> for other projects that use VTK.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 			Andy Cedilnik
> 
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Simon