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Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Dec 7 09:18:41 CST 2007


>
> I'm on Matt's side. Have you ever considered C++ for implementing
> PETSc internals?

   Python?


On Dec 7, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> On 12/7/07, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 6, 2007 9:00 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>   I am very nervous about mixing a catastrophic error handling  
>>> system
>>> WITH an exception system. I'd like to go back to the model:
>>> "once seterrq() is called ANYWHERE there is no possibility of
>>> continuing the program.
>>
>> I guess I have the opposite opinion. I think it is inevitable that  
>> PETSc
>> is rewritten at some point in the future. At that point, we would  
>> replace
>> the current, imperfect exception system with a better one. This way  
>> we
>> can preserve a good design. If we go the other way, all that code  
>> will
>> have to be rethought instead of just rewritten.
>>
>
> I'm on Matt's side. Have you ever considered C++ for implementing
> PETSc internals?
>
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