[vtk-developers] Smart pointer declaration macro?

[David Doria]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:33 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I vote for:
>
> 4. vtkLocalPointer<vtkClass> instance;
>
>  - David
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday 28 January 2010 10:16:24 Jeff Baumes wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Will Schroeder
>>>
>>> <will.schroeder at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> > Jeff can you summarize the proposed solutions (assuming we think we've
>>> > covered the bases) and let's take a vote on this. I want to keep my inbox
>>> > clear :-(
>>>
>>> 1. Keep things the way they are:
>>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkClass> c = vtkSmartPointer<vtkClass>::New();
>>>
>>> 2. Add new constructor to vtkSmartPointer that takes a bool and if
>>> true creates an instance of the object. Code would look like:
>>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkClass> c(true);
>>>
>>> 3. Create typedefs for vtkSmartPointer<vtkClass>:
>>> vtkClassSP c = vtkClassSP::New();
>>>
>>> 4. Make a new vtkLocalPointer type that is the same as vtkSmartPointer
>>> but always creates an instance of the object.
>>> vtkLocalPointer<vtkClass> c;
>>>
>>> Unfortunately our inboxes won't be clear until everyone responds with
>>> a vote (I'd maybe give it till 12pm eastern time). We can take it to
>>> the ARB if there is no clear consensus.
>>>
>> My favorite is 4, then 2. I was thinking of reasonably concise API, I think 1
>> has needless repetition and does not make the code any clearer.
>>
>> Marcus


Wow, is the survey THAT bad of an idea? There are now 47 emails in the
thread, completely unmanageable.

Thanks,

David