[petsc-dev] KSPAddOptionsChecker() needed?

[Barry Smith]

  PetscObjectAddOptionsHandler(PetscObject, PetscErrorCode (*)(PetscObject,void*),void *ctx)   ?


   Barry
On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> I am for the uniform PetscObjectAddOptionsChecker(). Should it really be called
> Checker?  Sounds like validation. I think there is some value in treating SetFromOptions
> as a generic facility that can be extended. This is "aspect oriented programming" :)
> 
>    Matt
> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
>   KSPAddOptionsChecker() is never used in PETSc. Is it needed? Can it be removed?
> 
>   Or should we have a PetscObjectAddOptionsChecker() instead, thus expanding this (unneeded capability) to all PETSc objects/solvers?
> 
>    Barry
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> -- 
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener

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