On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Derek Gaston wrote:

> As Roy mentioned a lot of these can be taken care of using the
> monomials with p=0 (so they are constant over the element).  A
> trickier thing might be that most of these are vector/tensor valued.
> Have we actually come to the point where we need vector valued
> variables?

We're not to the point where we need vector valued variables; that
will only come when we're trying to use vector-valued discretizations
that can't be expressed as tensor products of scalar-valued spaces,
and piecewise constants certainly don't qualify.

On the other hand, we're well past the point where we *want* vector
and tensor valued variables, just for simplicity of application
coding.  Even if we only implement tensor products of scalar spaces
for the foreseeable future, that's enough of a foundation to hash out
the right API.
---
Roy

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