[petsc-dev] PetscSection

[Jed Brown]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do not understand. Codim 0 and 1 are handled in an identical way.
>

The user doesn't do the same thing with them. Your data structure treats
them the same way (though I'm not sure how you distinguish between a tet
and a quad if both are "height 0" and you don't store intermediate levels),
but that seems like an implementation detail to me.


> I am not against some convenience interface for dim/co-dim, however it
> would
> just be implemented by making a label, since we have many equivalent
> structural
> things which would map to it.
>

Fine, I care much more about conceptual simplicity in the interface. I
think adoption will be higher if 95% of users don't see the word "stratum".
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