Templated Vector

I'm sure you'll get varying opinions on this, but I'm firmly of the mind that you should just hard-code it to use floats if that's what you expect to be using in your engine. Flexibility is great...when you need it. However, adding extra complexity to support something you'll most likely not need just makes things more cumbersome for your usual case.

-John

I agree with the freak. I have the most success when I keep things as simple as possible. If you need the extra fanciness later, well, at least your simple first solution didn't take a lot of time.

I would prefer making it a template, and then making a typedef for float. That way you could extend it to doubles for more precise vectors, or to ints or whatever. Who knows what the future holds. I don't think adding a template parameter adds much complexity.

A vector is a rather general purpose construct, so the chances are fairly high that you will want to reuse the existing code for other projects. Thus making it a more generic construct, such as using templates, would be advisable.

Thanks for your points of view, I believe that I do it in the two ways, and later I'll select what to use :)

If you're of the lazy type, just typedef it.

template <typename T> class CVector3 { ... }
typedef CVector3<float> CVector3f;

...

CVector3f FloatVector;

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Original post by GroZZleR CVector3f FloatVector;

Hehe... you can pick the MSVC programmers a mile away! ;)

Personally, I agree with Washu on this one. First assess the likelihood of reuse of your code. If you're never going to see it again and it's never going to need to be maintained (which is highly unlikely) then go with what requires the least work.

If you are at all likely to reuse your code (and you should almost always be thinking about how to minimise writing common code from scratch), then you should seriously consider generalising the code and fascilitating easy specialisation of the code for specific projects. Thus, templating your vector and permitting typedefs would be one option and a good way to go IMO.

Cheers,

Timkin

? whats so msvc about that? is it somehow non standard compliant? (im curious... because i like standards... really...) lol

thanks
-Dan

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Original post by Ademan555 ? whats so msvc about that? is it somehow non standard compliant? (im curious... because i like standards... really...) lol thanks -Dan

i think he was just referring to his coding conventions, its some kind of pseudo hungarian notation [sick][lol]