On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Tim Kroeger wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Boyce Griffith wrote:
>
>>>> Can't you just call clear() in ~MyPreconditioner()?
>>>
>>> Sure, I can.  Actually, that's what I'm doing now.  But for that, still the
>>> method Preconditioner::clear() does not have to exist, does it?
>>
>> I haven't used the Preconditioner class in libMesh, but this kind of
>> init()/clear() functionality is useful for time-dependent problems in which
>> you need to re-initialize the solver/preconditioner repeatedly. It is
>> similarly useful for adaptive discretizations.
>
> Well, that might be right in a way.  However, at least, I would vote
> for removing the call to clear() inside the destructor of the
> Preconditioner class, since this is definitely not doing anything, but
> it might make users believe it would call overloaded clear() methods.

I agree, but let's wait on Derek's input.
---
Roy

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