[vtk-developers] About the vtkDataArray::InsertTuple() method

[Sean McBride]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:09:55 -0600, David Gobbi said:

>Also related to data arrays: I'd love to see the deprecation of
>InsertValue() and InsertTuple().  The problems with them are:
>
>1) They are redundant.  As far as I'm concerned, their usage can
>always be replaced with SetTuple() or InsertNextTuple() and the
>resulting code will become easier to read.
>
>2) They don't actually "insert" tuples except at the end of the
>array, and we have InsertNextTuple() or that purpose.  Anywhere
>else in the array, they perform a replacement operation.
>
>Any thoughts?  Are these methods widely used anywhere except
>for VTK's own source tree?

No opinion per se, but as to your last question: it's impossible for us to know, and polling this list is too small a sample size.  I just grepped our codebase and found 2 uses of InsertValue().

Cheers,

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