[Dune] Re: Description of DGF in the grid-howto

[Robert Kloefkorn]

Hi all,

> * The howto states that it is necessary to use obscure
> preprocessor macros to use the DGF parser.
> I think the user should not be
> encouraged to use preprocessor macros. We want to teach
> then a clean programming stile.
> The preprocessor does obfuscate the code and it
> get's more difficult to debug. The examples should be
> adjusted such that the GridType macro is not used.

In addition to Andreas' comments (which I totally support) with the
GRIDTYPE and GRIDDIM macro
for ALBERTA the right library is linked when switching dimensions.
This is a feature that you hardly can achieve with defining
a const int dim inside the program.

Regards

Robert

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