[vtk-developers] smart pointer & type checking

[Shead, Timothy]

On 3/18/08 3:56 PM, "clinton at elemtech.com" <clinton at elemtech.com> wrote:

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> So why does this even compile?  I'd prefer to get a compile error.
>
>  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> MyPolyData =
>    vtkSmartPointer<vtkMultiBlockDataSet>::New();

Amazingly spooky ... I just got bitten by this a few minutes ago!  Not only
is it not a compile error, it isn't a runtime error either ...

Cheers,
Tim

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Timothy M. Shead
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Scalable Analytics & Visualization
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