[vtk-developers] MTime Olympics

[Ken Martin]

/agree vtkMTimeType makes more sense.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +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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