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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:08:33AM -0600, Robert Kirby wrote:
> By "given function", do you mean an arbitrary input function (something that
> supports __call__) or something in the finite element space?

A function that can be evaluated at any point. For example, someone
has specified a right-hand side by "return sin(x)".

-- 
Anders


> Functionals know how to apply themselves to the finite-dimensional space
> members via __call__ (it's just a dot product).
> 
> There is some preliminary support for the types of functionals in the "get_type
> ()" method.  It would need to be expanded to include some of this other
> information.