[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] Using PETSC with an openMP program

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > That is not the same as printing unused arguments. Michael's Pythia
> > does this correctly, but it is even less simple.
>
> You want it to accept the unused arguments and just print them without
> error, or some more subtle relationship among dependent options?


Yes, I do. I consider PETSc to have the correct functionality. The open
world
assumption is a good one, as long as you report that no one accepted that
option.

  Matt


>   We're
> here in a thread about not silently accepting options that *don't
> exist anywhere*.
>



-- 
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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