Anders Logg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:25:39PM +0200, Johan Hake wrote:
>> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 15:19:42 Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>> Johan Hake wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 12:58:41 Anders Logg wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:54:01PM +0200, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>>>>> DOLFIN wrote:
>>>>>>> One or more new changesets pushed to the primary dolfin repository.
>>>>>>> A short summary of the last three changesets is included below.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> changeset:   6975:37efb9fe9fe684b23521574a89048705a9a0bc6e
>>>>>>> tag:         tip
>>>>>>> parent:      6974:6c4c77900222f82b7b32888b29a08fef9ddc5789
>>>>>>> parent:      6973:abda55b5dfa2b2d0fbe2614b15483911ef661fdc
>>>>>>> user:        Anders Logg <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> date:        Tue Sep 08 12:51:01 2009 +0200
>>>>>>> files:
>>>>>>> description:
>>>>>>> merge
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> changeset:   6974:6c4c77900222f82b7b32888b29a08fef9ddc5789
>>>>>>> parent:      6970:5d7fc35d3e597db508a005826efacb8dea6a00d9
>>>>>>> user:        Anders Logg <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> date:        Tue Sep 08 12:01:43 2009 +0200
>>>>>>> files:       dolfin/fem/DofMap.cpp dolfin/fem/DofMap.h
>>>>>>> description:
>>>>>>> Make tabulate_facet_dofs accessible without having a ufc::cell, which
>>>>>>> makes it easy to access using iterators in Python.
>>>>>> Can we remove the version that takes a ufc::cell?
>>>>> Yes. Perhaps we should remove all the direct wrappers for UFC stuff
>>>>> and add a member function to return the underlying UFC object?
>>>>>
>>>>>   const ufc::dof_map& ufc_dof_map() const;
>>>> Should this be a member function of dolfin::DofMap? If so, it might be
>>>> sufficient with
>>>>
>>>>   const ufc::dof_map& ufc() const;
>>> Definitely not! The whole point of DofMap is to not expose ufc::dof_map
>>> in DOLFIN. It took a lot of work some time ago to fix this. Using
>>> ufc:dof_map screws up any dof renumbering.
> 
> There shouldn't be any problem allowing access to the underlying UFC
> objects. We do the same thing for PETSc with mat() and vec() and a
> user has just as big a chance to screw things up there.
> 

The problem with ufc objects is that developers screw things up too. 
I've spent a lot of time fixing this. Permitting access to the 
ufc::dof_map through DofMap defeats the purpose of having DofMap. I 
can't see any reason for allowing access to the ufc::dof_map from DofMap.

Garth

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