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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:18:54AM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> Johan Jansson wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Function used to inherit from TimeDependent, but not anymore. Is there 
> > any particular reason for this, or can we add it back? Perhaps the 
> > thinking was to avoid multiple inheritance?
> >
> 
> I don't think that there was a particular reason for removing it other 
> than making Function as simple as possible. When creating my own 
> Function, I just give it the address of the time variable.
> 
> Garth

Yes, the Function class started to get out of hand in terms of its
complexity so we removed TimeDependent to make it simpler. A Function
is now something that depends on x on a Mesh.

If we need time series etc, maybe we can implement something like
TimeSeries which is a sequence of Functions?

-- 
Anders