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[Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 08 May 2009 14:57:11 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:49:01PM +0200, Johan Hake wrote:
> > On Friday 08 May 2009 14:11:32 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:   6101:f22b49031d081323d6c6ce18eccbb12c80240b22
> > > tag:         tip
> > > user:        Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > date:        Fri May 08 14:11:28 2009 +0200
> > > files:       ChangeLog dolfin/parameter/NewParameter.cpp
> > > dolfin/parameter/NewParameter.h dolfin/parameter/Parameters.cpp
> > > dolfin/parameter/Parameters.h dolfin/parameter/dolfin_parameter.h
> > > sandbox/misc/cpp/main.cpp description:
> > > Add initial version of new parameter system. See test in sandbox/misc.
> > >
> > > Implementation similar to before, but much simplified as a result of
> > > removing the ParameterValue class and subclassing (New)Parameter
> > > directly.
> > >
> > > Implementation consists of two classes: Parameters and (New)Parameter.
> > > Only supports int and double so far. Range checks implemented.
> > >
> > > Check if this looks ok. Will continue to add more features.
> >
> > Looks nice. The info was a bit verbose for me, but that's details.
>
> I'm working on an ever more verbose version now, but it's prettier and
> looks more like what you suggested to me a few days back.

Ok!

> > Will it be possible to
> >
> >   my_params.add("another params",my_other_params);
> >
> > where my_other_params is a Parameters?
>
> Yes, that should be possible to fix. And I guess you mean those should
> then be nested? So after the above line, one may do
>
>   my_params["another params"]["foo"] = 1.0;

Exactly!

> > Should it be possible to state if the range should be open or close? Do
> > not know how to do it though. In python it is easy with kwargs.
>
> I'm thinking of using numeric_limits for this with shortcuts for
> int_min, int_max, double_min, double_max.

Nice!

Johan