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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:38:52AM +0200, jhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Yes, we'll deal with this when there are less pressing things to take care
> of. I guess we have the four letter "vert", but we may want to avoid
> abbreviations.

Yes, "vert" is only confusing. Let's go with "Vertex".

/Anders