I will definitely look at it.  I think it is a good idea.

However, I recently tried to compile, and I got an error with file used 
for dG.  I can reproduce it if you want.

- Shawn

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Anders Logg wrote:

> I've finished up the new implementation of the Function class.
> It's untested, but I'm pretty sure it works... :-) I'm very happy with
> the way it turned out.
>
> Anyway, it would be good if anyone interested would review the design
> and implementation (in detail, including function names etc).
>
> The Function class is central so it would be good if we could agree on
> a design and keep it stable for some time (like we've managed with the
> linear algebra interfaces).
>
> The main changes compared to the old/current design are as follows:
>
> 1. Introduction of a FunctionSpace class. A FunctionSpace is defined
> by a Mesh, a FiniteElement and a DofMap.
>
> 2. Removal of the class hierarchy. Only one class Function remains.
> This acts dynamically either as a user-defined function (if the vector
> of coefficients is null) or as the old DiscreteFunction.
>
> 3. The proliferation of constructors has been removed. There is
> essentially only one constructor, namely
>
>  v = Function(V)
>
> An additional class named Constant should be added to handle constant
> functions, overloading eval() and providing a bunch of constructors
> (scalar, vector, tensor).
>
> When we've settled on the design/implementation of Function and
> FunctionSpace, we need to do a round of editing of the DofMap class.
>
> -- 
> Anders
>
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