[vtk-developers] PLY reader issues

[Sean McBride]

On 11/15/07 11:29 AM, David Cole said:

>On 11/15/07, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
>> Someone on vtk-users also pointed out that this code calls 'exit(-1)' on
>> error.  Of course, this terminates the process, loosing any unsaved
>> work.  What should it do instead?
>
>Anything but...

:)

>Most places where errors occur in VTK simply use vtkErrorMacro and do
>an early return. It is not a very robust generic error/exception
>handling mechanism and relies on avoiding errors in the first place.

vtkErrorMacro seems to require 'this' but everything in vtkPLY is static
methods.  Is there a variant error macro I can use?  I didn't see one...

Cheers,

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