[vtk-developers] Proposing vtkObjectMacro

[Aashish Chaudhary]

+1 to remove construct and destructor. Also I think like Qt we should
provide disable copy macro and use it in vtkClassMacro.

Thanks,


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Cory Quammen <cquammen at cs.unc.edu> wrote:

> +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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| Aashish Chaudhary
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