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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Maybe we could add to BoundaryCondition and Function a member function
> that can be called to connect any object to a given real t. Something
> like
> 
> class Function
> {
> public:
> 
>     void synchronize(const real& t)
>     {
>        this->t = &t;
>     }
> 
> private:
> 
>     const real* t;
> 
> }
> 
> Then in a time-stepping loop, one can keep a variable t and do
> 
>     t += k;
> 
> and all synchronized Functions and BoundaryConditions will be
> automatically updated.
> 
> In addition, one could create a base class Synchronizable and put the
> functionality in there so we don't have to duplicated. Then Function
> and BoundaryCondition just inherit from Synchronizable.
> 

Any objections to a new base class "Synchronizable" or "Time" (name
suggestions?) from which BoundaryCondition and Function derive in order to keep
track of time?

Garth