[vtk-developers] Smart pointer declaration macro?

[Francois Bertel]

Then where is my proposal 5 on your survey?

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:37 AM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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