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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, you can't overload on function name. When you define write_cells()
again, the previous definition will be lost, same as

a = 2
a = 3

Now a is 3, and no one remembers it was once 2. It can't be both, same
for functions.

/Anders


On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:45:03PM +0100, DOLFIN wrote:
> One or more new changesets pushed to the primary DOLFIN repository.
> A short summary of the last three changesets is included below.
> 
> changeset:   1691:c6cc5f39ea0d23ed6eb24a4ddd360e6a3d41db89
> tag:         tip
> user:        "Garth N. Wells <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>"
> date:        Wed Feb 15 22:44:21 2006 +0100
> files:       src/utils/convert/dolfin-convert
> description:
> -Add conversion from .gmsh (http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/) format to dolfin-convert.
> -Add functions in dolfin-convert for writing DOLFIN mesh XML headers, etc, which are common to all mesh conversions.
> 
> This was my first foray in Python. Is it possible to overload functions?
> 
> def write_cells(n0, n1, n2, n3):
>     .
> 
> def write_cells(n0, n1, n2):
>     .
>     
> 
> Garth
> 
> 
> changeset:   1690:0dc4c67e201b24d136b068587fe3791d3a504636
> user:        "Johan Jansson <johanjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
> date:        Wed Feb 15 15:19:03 2006 +0100
> files:       src/kernel/io/XMLFile.cpp src/kernel/io/dolfin/XMLFile.h src/test/main.cpp
> description:
> io:
> 
> Implemented and added test for Function output.
> 
> 
> changeset:   1689:5b787894cb61db22606aaf55e83ee3c7a8080426
> user:        "Johan Jansson <johanjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
> date:        Wed Feb 15 14:30:18 2006 +0100
> files:       src/kernel/io/XMLVector.cpp src/test/function.xml src/test/main.cpp src/test/reftri.xml.gz
> description:
> io:
> 
> Fixed and tested Vector input. Added test of Function input to
> src/test (works).
> 
> 
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Anders Logg
Research Assistant Professor
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
http://www.tti-c.org/logg/