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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> There seems to be a problem (among many) with the current design of
> the Function classes (see thread "evaluating higher order mesh function").
>
> In particular, the finite element is missing in DiscreteFunction. My
> suggestion would be to just add it and let a DiscreteFunction consist
> of the following four items which are always available:
>
>   mesh, x, dof_map, finite_element

Sounds fine. I thought that a DiscreteFunction already had a 
FiniteElement. Should a DiscreteFunction own its FiniteElement?

Could FFC or whatever/whoever generates the ufc::finite_element somehow 
provide a unique identifier for that element type?  I don't particularly 
like the precompiled elements, and an identifier would help on this front.

Garth

> Is this enough, and what other issues to we need to fix?
>
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