[petsc-dev] broken TS example related to Jacobian and coloring etc.

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> You can, but the setter routines interpret NULL as "ignore", i.e.
>>>
>>> if (func) ctx->func = func;
>>>
>>
>> Does this make sense to anyone? Can we remove that if?
>
>
> Then we would have to revisit lots of locations and get the old value
> before resetting it. Passing NULL was a convenience.
>

Ah, I see. This is crappy design.

  Matt

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