[geos-devel] getCoordinateDimension() - ticket 311

[Martin Davis]

getDimension follows the OGC spec.  Seems to me it's better to simply 
change it to match the spec and the C++ API.  This was clearly a bug in 
the first place, no?

strk wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:27:16PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
>   
>> I think we will have to change the values returned by the C API getDimension
>> function to match C++ even though this introduces a modest risk of problems
>> for applications using the undocumented current behavior.
>>     
>
> What's the problem with deprecating it and use a new, more explicit name ?
>
>  GEOSGeom_getSpatialDimension() maybe ?
>
> Note that there are other functions which I think should be deprecated
> so getDimension won't feel alone (the setOrdinate/getOrdinate ones
> in particular, as they use 1-based index and in an undocumented way).
>
> --strk; 
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