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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:13:58AM -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Recently we have had a couple of requests to add dolfin::Cell versions of
> ufc::cell versions of methods in dolfin::FiniteElement. There are quite many
> of the methods, and I think it looks ugly to have duplicates of all of these.
>
> Would it be OK to remove all dolfin::Cell versions and require C++ users to
> generate a UFCCell, if they only have a dolfin::Cell, before they call the
> corresponding method? We could then just add a typemap on the Pythonside
> making it possible to call these methods using a dolfin::Cell.
>
> What you say?

Wouldn't it be possible (by some C++ constructor/cast magic) to make
it work automatically with a DOLFIN Cell argument in place of a
UFCCell?

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Anders