dolfin team mailing list archive

[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Johan Hake skrev 2010-10-21 17.13:
> [snip]
>
> > Just as a side note, we first consider changing the meaning of
> > TrialFunction to be a special subclass of Expression
>
> Should that be Coefficient?

Yes! I get confused with all the constant renaming. Someone should stop 
changing the names all the time...

> > which (a Function
> > in DOLFIN) instead of an Argument. So one would always define a
> > nonlinear problem and it would always be linearized.
>
> Sounds like FEtk ;)

:-)

> > That would solve
> > some of the issues regarding the need for redefining u when a linear
> > problem is solved:
> >
> > u = TrialFunction(V)  # now it's a trial function
> > ...
> > u = problem.solve()   # now it's something different
> >
> > But we decided this would require too many changes.
>
> Yes, but I get the impression that you want to something like that but
> preserve backward compatability?

Yes.

--
Anders