iRel revisions

[Mark Shephard]

Tim,

Not that RPI and Simmetrix are pretty much unable to make any progress 
until the iterator-based functions. We need them as soon as possible.

Mark

Tim Tautges wrote:
> 
> 
> Carl Ollivier-Gooch wrote:
>> Tim Tautges wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>   Based on our discussions about iRel, I've made changes to the iRel 
>>> interface header; the new version is attached, along with a revised 
>>> document describing iRel.  Comments are welcome.  When things have 
>>> settled down from that, I'll get this in to the ITAPS repo and 
>>> implement the changes in Lasso.
>>
>> A couple of comments, mostly minor:
>>
>> There are a couple of paste-o's where the arg type in iBase_EntitySet, 
>> but the arg name is ent*.
>>
> 
> Got it.
> 
>> There's a comment at the top of the file that suggests that some 
>> functions will take either an entity or a set in the same argument 
>> slot, with an additional arg indicating which it is.  That doesn't 
>> show up anywhere in the file (which is good, because compilers would 
>> puke on that), but the comment should be removed.
> 
> Oops;  I thought I'd expunged all MOAB-based assumptions from iRel, but 
> they persist, as does Carl's vigilance :).
> 
>>
>> Otherwise --- and with the caveat that I've not tried to implement or 
>> use it --- this looks reasonable enough to me as far as it goes.  
>> Isn't it still missing some stuff about returning iterators instead of 
>> sets on request?
>>
> 
> Drat, I guess my subconscious was trying to slip that one past the 
> group.  Mark B, this was (on a conscious level, anyway...) unintentional.
> 
> Looks like there's more work to do to add iterator-based functions.  I 
> may not get to this until next week, but I'll get to it.
> 
>> Carl
>>
>>
>>
> 
> A couple other changes:
> 
> - removed setSetArrEntArr, that's covered by setEntArrSetArr with 
> appropriate switch_order argument.  For those that are really on top of 
> things (Carl), I think the setSetEntArr has to stay, because of 
> non-symmetry in the Arr part.
> 
> - removed comment block on Geometry-Mesh Functions, which were removed 
> from iRel
> 
> - tim
>