[vtkusers] Understanding vtkSmartPointers

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:30 AM, David Thompson <david.thompson at kitware.com
> wrote:

> > ...
> > I think I wrote something similar back then. Whenever I see code like
> >
> > vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer = vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::
> New();
> >
> > I want to replace it with
> >
> > vtkNew<vtkRenderer> renderer;
>
> With c++11, you can also say
>
>   auto renderer = vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
>
> which cleans up the smart-pointer case a little bit.
>
> For sure, although in the case of class member variables it doesn't help,
and I would argue vtkNew is cleaner (and vtkNew still uses far fewer
characters, you got to preserve the finite resources on disk :P ).
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