[vtk-developers] Proposing vtkObjectMacro

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> I am in favor of adding the macro, and disagree with Utkarsh in that
>> we already have the type macro etc and it will remove the need for a
>> lot of boiler plate code in each class declaration.
>
> Note  that vtkTypeMacro() doesn't force you to add anything in the cxx
> file. You can pretty much not know what that macro does and you're
> okay. Not so with this macro. Also hiding constructor/destructor is
> really weird to me. Why would you? I don't think I am thrilled by
> having to implement function definitions without seeing their
> declarations in the header. None of the existing macros do that, not
> even in Qt, as far as I know. Readability of code is far more
> important that saving typing a few more lines, IMHO.
>
I can see your point with the contructor/desctructor. Even with them
removed I still think this macro would be very useful.

Marcus