[vtk-developers] MTime Olympics

[Bill Lorensen]

+1 Brad that makes sense. If there are no objections raised, I'll
change vtkTypeMTime to vtkMTimeType.

Bill


On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 08/15/2016 04:14 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>> vtkTypeMTime versus vtkMTimeType.
>
> I have no strong preference but can add some info here.
>
>> Most of vtk uses vtkFooType except in vtkType.h where
>> vtkTypeFoo is preferred.
>
> The naming in "vtkType.h" can be interpreted as a "vtkType" prefix
> (much like vtkSomeClass) followed by the type name of interest.
> This reads well only when the type name obviously corresponds to
> a primitive type (e.g. Int64).  The only reason vtkIdType appears
> there is it was a natural place to adopt the definition.
>
> For types naming abstract concepts it may not read as well
> (e.g. vtkTypeId v. vtkIdType).  The name vtkTypeMTime sounds
> like it is somehow a modification time on types.  The name
> vtkMTimeType sounds like it is the type of a modification time.
>
> -Brad
>



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