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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I would suggest that the correct way to write a function that must return a object is to have that function return a new object not a pointer to the object. Yes you will incur some overhead for creation of the object but you will at least guarantee a consistent behaviour.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Todd V.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: David Blasby [<A HREF="mailto:dblasby@refractions.net">mailto:dblasby@refractions.net</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:33 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: GEOS Development List</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [geos-devel] Documentation</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>strk wrote:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Who is responsible for GEOS overall architecture ?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>This would be Martin Davis, Yuri Bychkov, and Paul Ramsey. But, its </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>open source, so its really a community process. If you have suggestions </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>- just post them to the list.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2> >PS: I will try adding an example.cpp file containing what I've</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> >understood so far ...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Excellent!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Personally, I'm not too concerned about returning copies of object or </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the actual object (Although the latter has a big efficiency plus.). We </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>just need to be consistent and explicit.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I think PostGIS is the only real application using GEOS at the moment - </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>and I'm willing to modify the POSTGIS->GEOS and GEOS->POSTGIS converters </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>if necessary.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I'm actually really quite impressed with GEOS in PostGIS. I've been </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>doing quite a bit of actual processing and checking using it! Its so </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>much easier to write simple SQL instead of Java (or worse C++) code to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>check data or actually process stuff.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Kudos to everyone involved!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>dave</FONT>
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