[vtk-developers] MTime Olympics

[Bill Lorensen]

I just changed to vtkMTimeType and pushed the changes.


On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com> wrote:
> /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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