[petsc-dev] naming of DM specific constructors is backwards

[Jed Brown]

Constructor tab completion is better for DMCreateDA().
On Sep 13, 2012 9:05 PM, "Barry Smith" <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>    MatCreateSeqAIJ()  etc etc etc
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>     but
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>     DMDACreate(), DMRedundantCreate() etc
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>     Now given that normally we list the subclass name right after the base
> class in methods, for example KSPGMRESSetRestart() not KSPSetRestartGMRES()
> it might make sense to always follow the DMXXXCreate() style and change ALL
> the other sub constructor names to the DM style. Boy I know Wolfgang will
> not be happy with that :-)
>
>     Should we just fix the DM sub constructors to follow the style of all
> the other ones?
>
>     Barry
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