itaps-parallel Re: Parallel Interface philosophical comments

[Jason Kraftcheck]

Onkar Sahni wrote:
> 
> For clarification, by operations on entity sets I meant set-specific
> operations/functions, like iMesh_addEntToSet, iMesh_rmvEntFromSet,
> iMesh_subtract, iMesh_intersect, iMesh_unite etc. My understanding, from
> the last boot camp, is that these functions will not be enabled to accept
> part-handles.

Why should iMesh_intersect, _subtract, and _unite not support part
handles?  A part (or partition or whatever) is logically a set of
entities, differing from the entity set concept in that it a) has
additional data and functionality, and b) imposes limitations on how the
contents can be modified.  Any iMesh function that doesn't modify an
entity set doesn't contradict b) and no function can contradict a), so I
would think it should be possible to substitute a part for an entity set
in any iMesh function that doesn't modify the input set.

- jason


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