[vtk-developers] vtkStdString vs std::string

[Bill Lorensen]

Could be related to Wrapping?

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <
jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> What is the advantages of one vs the other? Looking at the current code
> base, seems both are widely used.
>
>
> $ rm -rf Common/Core/vtkStdString.*
> $ ack -c -l -h "std\:\:string" | cut -d":" -f2 | awk '{s+=$1} END {print
> s}'
> 1583
> $ ack -c -l -h "vtkStdString" | cut -d":" -f2 | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'
> 2104
>
>
> Are the following reason still valid:
>     - allow forward declaration hence reducing the number of header
> inclusion, and also speed compilation.
>     - shorter symbol name. See [1]
>
>
> As a best practice, should we recommend one vs the other ?
>
> Thanks
> Jc
>
> [1] http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/2010-January/105450.html
>
> --
> +1 919 869 8849
>
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtk-developers
>
>
>


-- 
Unpaid intern in BillsBasement at noware dot com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/attachments/20130220/ac5f60bb/attachment.html>