Re: C++

Jeff Squyres (jsquyres@lsc.nd.edu)
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:09:41 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Eric Salo wrote:

> > Unless there's strong
> > feeling otherwise, I'd like to add a sentence or two in the bindings
> > chapter that says that == and != are not defined on MPI::Status objects.
> > OR, if people strongly want it, I'd like to say that == and != *only*
> > compare the three "public" pieces of information.
>
> Either way works for me. If we go with the first option, we can always relax
> the restriction later if and when anyone complains.

Sounds reasonable -- anyone else?

> > 2. The name Comm::Get_topo should change -- it is virtual, and compilers
> > generate warnings that it is masked by Graphcomm::Get_topo. So the name
> > Comm::Get_topo should change to Comm::Get_topo_type.
>
> 'type' is bad, let's try to reserve that for datatypes. Maybe get_topo_kind?
> No, wait, we use 'kind' for something else as well. Hmm...how about
> get_topology?

Get_topology sounds good to me.

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