[vtk-developers] Proposing vtkObjectMacro

[Cory Quammen]

+1 if you remove the constructors/destructor declarations.

Cory

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Patchett, John M <patchett at lanl.gov> wrote:
> Though I don't usually involve myself in VTK development, I think
> that obfuscated understandability is part of the reason that I've seen
> a large number of otherwise bright developers (students) become
> integration impotent when asked to put their ideas/code in
> VTK/ParaView...
> If a goal is to have contributors, this is a bad idea.
>
>
> --John.
>
>
> On 9/13/12 9:22 AM, "Marcus D. Hanwell" <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>>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
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Cory Quammen
Research Associate
Department of Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill