[vtk-developers] Another 'major' change in vtkSetGet

Andy Cedilnik Andy.Cedilnik at kitware.com
Fri Feb 8 10:57:10 EST 2002


>Sure, there'll still be special cases. But there would be fewer. And fewer 
>special cases means fewer
>things to fix if there should ever come a time when it is decided that the 
>implementation of the
>SetGet macros needs to change, for whatever reason. The macros do more 
>than provide convenience: they
>ensure consistency.

I agree with this.
vtkSetObjectMacro makes sense because it eliminates repetition of the
code and therefore higher consistency. vtkSet*BodyMacro does exactly
that on the next level.

                         Andy




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