create/destroy name change proposal
Jason Kraftcheck
kraftche at cae.wisc.edu
Fri May 7 12:22:51 CDT 2010
Devine, Karen D wrote:
> While we are changing names, let's clear up the confusion between "mesh
> instance" and "mesh." These functions don't create/destroy a "mesh"; they
> create/destroy a "mesh instance" (i.e, a mesh database). Many meshes can be
> stored in a mesh instance, but we expect that in most cases, only one mesh
> instance will be used.
>
> How about
> iMesh_newMesh --> iMesh_createMeshInstance
> iMesh_dtor --> iMesh_destroyMeshInstance
>
> Or, even better, following the example of iMesh_load and iMesh_save,
> iMesh_newMesh -->iMesh_create
> iMesh_dtor --> iMesh_destroy
>
> Of course, I'd be happy to replace the word "instance" with "database"; any
> takers? :)
>
It's both: an instance of a database.
How about iMesh_createInstance and iMesh_destroyInstance or
iMesh_newInstance and iMesh_delInstance?
- jason
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