[vtk-developers] Data structures in VTK (Implementation)

[David Gobbi]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Andy Cedilnik wrote:

> At 02:06 PM 2/21/2002 -0500, David Gobbi wrote:
> >Inheritance is an implementation detail now, but these containers
> >might possibly become part of the VTK interface sometime in the future.
> >So the containers should either be made into a heirarchy now, or at
> >the very least a heirarchy should be drawn out on paper to ensure that
> >the containers can be put into a heirarchy later.
>
> If containers are templated they will never be part of the interface.

Yes, this is true (otherwise it wouldn't be VTK anymore).  I guess
I'm still dreaming of a better replacement for vtkCollection but that
is a separate issue.  My ideal vtkCollection would support [], * and ++
so really it's just a pipe dream ;)

 - David