[petsc-dev] sor smoothers

[Barry Smith]

  My point was that if not all your fingers are broken then you can change it to use a different model to set them. In fact for some objects we do assign them individually.

  The only excuse for complaining about bad code and not fixing it is 10 broken fingers.


On Sep 9, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>   Someone broke all your fingers :-)
> 
> Someone likes having error messages for type mismatches on the correct
> line, likes being able to add fields without needing to revisit every
> struct in PETSc, and doesn't have enough fingers to count the fields in
> _MatOps.
> 
> Those big struct initializers are _terrible_ without designated
> initializers.