[Insight-developers] Get vs. Compute

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Nick,

Is this for a Filter-like class ?
or for a Calculator-like class ?

In a Filter, you may want to stick to using "Get" only
to return values of (or references to) member variables.

In a Calculator, we have used "Get" in the past to do
both : trigger the computation, and return the outcome.

Note also, that now that the DataObjectDecorators
are available, there is less motivation for having
"Calculator" classes, and we could always have
"Filter" classes, since their output can now be
simple data types (decorated as objects).


    Luis


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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Nicholas Tustison <ntustison at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I remember seeing information somewhere about guidelines for
>  nomenclature of functions and I was hoping somebody could point
> me to it.  Or maybe i'm misremembering but I was hoping somebody
> could help me out.
>
> Specifically, for example, is there some guidelines as to whether or
> not one should name a function GetValue() vs. ComputeValue() vs.
> GenerateValue() vs. CalculateValue(), etc.?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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