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

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:29:54PM +0100, Johan Hake wrote:
> > On Friday 07 November 2008 22:30:02 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > > 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:   5134:feb3adf67203f64e807c0dce4e3025309f26f3c1
> > > > tag:         tip
> > > > user:        "Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>"
> > > > date:        Fri Nov 07 07:59:35 2008 +0100
> > > > files:       site-packages/dolfin/__init__.py
> > > > description:
> > > > Updated __init__.py for new name of timing.py
> > > This isn't the best name because it's not related to timing. If time is
> > >    a problem, something like dolfin_time is better.
> > Fixed.
> >
> > Johan
>
> Where is the Time class used and why? Why is not a float value sufficient?

It's used in Functions that have a time dependence, e.g. in the 
nonlinear Poisson demo. A float was not sufficient because the Python 
objects don't store a float as a reference.

It's possible that it can be removed once 'time' is working in the new 
Function design.

Garth


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