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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:08:38PM +0200, jhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > By the way, we use the name "node" for vertices, but we should
> > probably use "vertex". Then "node" is free to use for finite element
> > nodes (degrees for freedom) which can be associated with vertices,
> > edges, faces etc.
> >
> > /Anders
> >
> 
> Yes, "node" is not a good name. It should be changed to vertex.
> 
> /Johan

The good thing about "node" is that it has four characters, same as
"cell", "face", "edge". But we should change anyway... :-)

I guess changing from "node" to "vertex" will be just as fun as when
we changed from "grid" to "mesh". Not only do we have to change the
code everywhere, we also have to rename files (which is not so fun in
CVS), change the XML format, and replace "node" with "vertex" in all
XML data files in data/meshes/...

I have added this to the TODO list, that's all I have time for right
now.

/Anders