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

Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> There is a signature:
>
>   // Create form on given function space(s) with given coefficient(s)
> (shared data)
>   PoissonLinearForm(std::tr1::shared_ptr<const dolfin::FunctionSpace>
> V0, dolfin::Function& w0) : dolfin::Form(), f(*this)
>
> but no signature where both the function spaces and functions are
> shared pointers. For an application with full use of shared pointers,
> we need that.

I don't think that it's required. I brought this point up a while ago,

  http://www.fenics.org/pipermail/ffc-dev/2008-November/001923.html

and Anders clarified the situation and it made sense to me at the time 
(I checked by following through the code), although I agree that it's 
cryptic and counter-intuitive.

Garth

> (I'm looking at this now because I want to generate dolfin code from SFC).
>
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> Martin
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