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[Václav Šmilauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>]

> > I also hope that such generic interactions will reduce code duplication
> > (for instance, there is unbalancedForce computation in Triaxial, but now
> > it can use this function).
> >
> Very good. I get it you modified the class hierarchy, or NormalShearI 
> has been here for a while and I didn't notice?

No, that is quite a recent addition, mainly because of SDECLinkPhysics
vs. other very similar classes; I also hope it will accelerate getting
rid of persistentInteractions and consolidate some other code.

> Agreed. Two main reasons for current situation :
> 1. I tried to comply with Yade design - in a stupid way maybe.
> 2. Global stiffness is (probably more "could" or "should", in fact...) 
> also used to control the stress on walls. So the stiffness data is a bit 
> more general than just timestep computing.
> 
> One more reason to merge : if somebody makes the mistake of setting 
> different intervals in counter and timestepper, it could result in a 
> strange behaviour, perhaps uninitialized values, etc.

Go ahead with that, I think that will be much friendlier, indeed.

Vaclav