<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Karl Rupp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rupp@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">rupp@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<div class="im"><br>
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Can DMComplex also be used with real numbers? ;-)<br>
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Yes, still the most commonly-asked question, and not likely to be fixed<br>
by popularity. The new year sounds like a good excuse to fix this<br>
confusion. Possible suggestions to fight the confusion:<br>
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* DMPlex - short and pronounceable<br>
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I prefer this name over the two others.<div class="im"><br>
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* DMCC - "Cell Complex"<br>
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* DMCW - from "CW Complex"<br>
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Matt, can we choose something and do the batch rename soon (before<br>
petsc-3.4)? I'll make you an auto-generated deprecated compatibility<br>
header if you want that.<br>
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I'm sick of needlessly confusing users.<br>
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Other suggestions:<br>
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* DMCellComplex - a bit lengthy, but expressive. Four additional letters<br>
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* DMCellSpace - a CW complex is a class of spaces, but a user usually refers to a particular space. It's only two more letters than DMComplex.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Being a "CW Complex" is an attribute of a space the same way being a "simplicial complex" is, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CW_complex">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CW_complex</a>, so</div>
<div style>it does not directly name a class of spaces any more than the latter designation.</div><div style><br></div><div style> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Furthermore, is 'DM' sufficiently expressive? I know that there is a whole family of DM*-functionality, but if we change the name of something as fundamental as DMComplex, then one can also think about adjusting the prefix as well (if required)...<br>
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Best regards and happy new year,<br>
Karli<br></blockquote></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener
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