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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 08:01:28PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>
>
> On 18/07/10 19:57, Anders Logg wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 07:48:05PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >>I'm not keen on 'x' for the spatial coordinate when it's imported
> >>into DOLFIN (just asking for bugs). I would prefer something like
> >>
> >>     x = SpatialCoordinate()
> >
> >Yes, perhaps. But isn't this just as good or bad as the default
> >indices i, j, k etc which are automatically imported?
> >
>
> I would say that's it a little bit worse. x is not commonly used in
> forms as a coordinate, but it commonly used for other things
> (vectors, mesh coordinates). Since x is uncommon in forms, I removed
> it.

Good point, but we should make sure that x = SpatialCoordinate()
works.

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Anders

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