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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've put up a preliminary version of NewFunction. To begin with, let's
keep it simple and not do the envelope-letter hierarchy of classes
until we know which types of functions we need.

To do assembly, we really only need to implement project(), which
computes the projection of the function to the current cell. In the
simplest case when the cell belongs to the mesh on which the function
is defined, it's just a matter of picking the values by calling
NewFiniteElement::dof(). We might want to wait with the general case.

Evaluation of the function (which is not implemented) is really only
needed for post-processing, like saving the values of the function at
the vertices.

For functions appearing in forms, I suggest that the class Form
contains a list of pointers to NewFunctions. The constructor of a
form then takes as arguments a number of NewFunctions and the pointer
of each is added to the list. Then Form::update() can iterate over all
the functions in the list and call NewFunction::project() to compute
the local values. I can fix this since some of this code needs to be
generated by FFC.

/Anders