[petsc-dev] names of TSTypes
Barry Smith
bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Sat Apr 17 12:51:39 CDT 2010
On Apr 17, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:33:02 +0200, "Jose E. Roman" <jroman at dsic.upv.es
> > wrote:
>> By the way, TSCRANK_NICHOLSON is not spelled correctly, should be
>> TSCRANK_NICOLSON (without the H)
>
> Good point, that misspelling has been there forever.
That is my fault. I didn't know that was a misspelling, I thought
that was her name :-(
>>> I prefer that the runtime interface uses short names because these
>>> are
> the names that I'll be typing a lot (I'd rather not have lots of
> important and frequently changed options under really long prefixes,
> i.e. -ts_irk_ and -ts_gl_ instead of -ts_implicit_runge_kutta_ and
> -ts_general_linear_). Consistency implies that the macros should all
> have short names as well.
>
> Shall I abbreviate TSCRANK_NICHOLSON and TSRUNGE_KUTTA?
>
Yes. if you do then I think everything will be consistent with
naming also, TSCreate_RK etc. (Remember to update the changes file
dev.html)
Please do not make the change in the users manual, I've made some
big changes I cannot yet push that I don't want to deal with a merge
for.
Thanks
Barry
> Jed
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