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[Joachim B Haga <jobh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Saturday 29 March 2008 15:56:29 Anders Logg wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:42:24PM +0100, Joachim B Haga wrote:

>>> At the moment there are 546 attributes in the dolfin namespace (with only

>> You are right, there are too many things being imported. This is
>> because we've been lazy and done import * in many places.

> But some of the pointed out names are imported from FFC, should we eg. place 
> this in dolfin.ffc? In a demo or program you could then from dolfin.ffc 
> import *. I would also suggest to modularize the actuall dolfin namespace 
> too, a la the c++ modules, eg. put all mesh related things in dolfin.mesh 
> aso.

Yes, ffc must also be part of such a clean-up. As for modularisation: it would
be good as a next step, but I'm not planning it as part of the first patch
because it will (probably) require too much change in current code.

-j.