On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:

So what you're saying is that your system could be extended to do this?

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I'm not disagreeing, but I think my suggestion is more maintainable and extensible. As I said in my first reply, the differences are mostly cosmetic, but I think there is good reason to prefer the form I suggest. The important thing in either case is to have a database of tests so we can program behavior.

Obviously I disagree. I responded to the maintainability argument, but you just ignored the response.

Since it's maintainable to put everything in one file, why not put all of PETSc in one file? I prefer local declaration of tests and the error conditions are handled much better.