On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 22:23, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Of course in the end we will be editing "code fragments" in an editor. Related: http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm > But I would like to see much of the code obtained by "manipulating" the > code fragments with powerful tools (beyond CPP or regular expressions), for > example all the code that is in there for different block sizes should be > "generated"; but I don't want it generated by crude m4 macros and crap like > that. Note that C++ templates try to provide a mechanism for this type of > thing but we both think that mechanism is crappy. Actually, I think C++ templates are adequate, and fairly well-suited, for block size specialization. It's when people try to do more with them that the floodgates let loose. Jed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20101206/f5e0b5a3/attachment.html>
