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["Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/4/14, Kristian Oelgaard <k.b.oelgaard@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Quoting Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> > This should be fixed now.
>  >
>  > I wasn't able to compile 1D vector elements. Looks like a bug in FFC.
>
>
> Depends how you look at it. If you do:
>
>  element = VectorElement("Lagrange", "interval", 2)
>
>  FFC will try to generate a vector element with just cell_dimension = 1 component
>  i.e. effectively a FiniteElement (this will fail because MixedElement expects a
>  list).
>
>  If you do e.g.,
>
>  element = VectorElement("Lagrange", "interval", 2, 3)
>
>  things work fine.
>
>  We could modify VectorElement to return the FiniteElement for the special case
>  of shape = "interval" and no specified number of components, but on the other
>  hand I think it is more logical if it doesn't work.

I agree. Either they are treated as equivalent, or it should fail like
in FFC today. The latter case could print an informative message.

--
Martin