[vtk-developers] New way of doing wrapper hints

[Brad King]

On 06/06/2016 10:51 AM, David Gobbi wrote:
> In this proposal, hinting would be done like this:
> 
>     VTK_SIZEHINT(3) double* GetPoint();
> 
> and we could get rid of the "hints" file.

Neat.  I suggest using a prefix like `VTK_HINT_` for all such macros,
and corresponding attribute names with a prefix like `vtk::hint::`.
That will reserve space for other attributes to be added later for
reasons other than hints.

-Brad