[geos-devel] GEOS Exceptions

[strk at refractions.net]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:52:12PM -0400, Mark Coletti wrote:
> On 4/19/05, Artem Pavlenko <artem at pavlenko.uklinux.net> wrote:
...
> > Meanwhile , could anyone explain to me why do we need
> > vector<Coordinate>*  and not just vector<Coordinate>
> > in DefaultCoordinateSequence? 
> 
> Oh, my.  I hope it's not for some perverse form of vector re-sizing.

I found it like that and failed to clean it up as most of the current
code. Changing - again - will break API.
Actually I think we can really start a GEOS3 branch and do a big
lifting on it.

> And again, why  not write:
> >    struct A
> >   {
> >       A(B const& b)
> >         : b_(b) {}
> >        B b_;
> >   };

We can do this and I actually started doing it somewhere, but as far
as args are pointers this doesn't really speed things up...

--strk;

> > 
> >  instead of:
> 
> Yep.  From _Effective C++_, "Item 12: Prefer initialization to 
> assignment in constructors."  (Unfortunately this problem is also rife
> in QuantumGIS source.)
> 
> MAC
> -- 
> I'm taking reality in small doses to build immunity.
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