[Dune] Dune::Grid::type() and modularization

[Oliver Sander]

Seems okay to me.  If need be, at run-tim you can still do everything with
a name string instead of an enum value.

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Oliver

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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Christian Engwer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> one of the major goals of the modularization was to allow developers
> to create new dune-modules beside the official dune repositories. I
> now got feedback that this is not possible for new grids. The problem
> is, when write a new grid outside of dune-grid you can't extend the
> GridIdentifier enum.
>
> To me it seems the only place where the GridIdentifier is used for is
> the association of ID and name. Therefor I suggest to remove the
> type() method and create a name method at the grid. This Method can
> then be used to write an ostream operator for Dune::Grid<..>.
>
> Comments? Suggestion?
>
> Cheers Christian
>
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