On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes: > > This is something to think about. I believe the original intention here > was > > to > > go along with our philosophy of subtyping. For example, if you call > > > > KSPGMRESSetRestart() > > > > on KSPCR, it is just ignored. Likewise ASCII_INFO_DETAIL might just > > give regular ASCII output if we have no specialization for it. This is > > more of an open world assumption where we have an acceptable default > > if we do not know about something. > > What about ASCII_MATLAB or ASCII_VTK? Printing unstructured text to > these structured formats is definitely broken. > I don't disagree, but should we go all the way to a closed model to fix this, or should we just pick out cases like this and catch them? Matt -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
