[mesa-users] lnd_offset

[Kent G. Budge]

There is actually a school of thought that well-written code should not 
/need/ documentation. It should be obvious to someone looking at the 
code what it does.

I don't actually buy this for a minute. Just thought it was worth 
mentioning for the chuckles.

On 09/22/2016 11:00 AM, Matthew Clayton wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Thanks for sorting that out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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> *From:* Bill Paxton [paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu]
> *Sent:* 22 September 2016 17:44
> *To:* Matthew Clayton
> *Cc:* mesa-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [mesa-users] lnd_offset
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> This is yet another example of why comments in code are a bad thing. ;)
>
> The relic mention of "lnd_offset" is a left over from a brief 
> unproductive episode long ago.
>
> As you discovered, there is no "lnd_offset" in the current system, 
> just a bogus comment.
>
> I'll go delete that now -- perhaps I should just delete all comments?
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
>
> On Sep 22, 2016, at 7:27 AM, Matthew Clayton wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm using structure variables from s%xh(index, cell_number). The 
>> indices for this array are first defined in star/public/star_data.inc 
>> which defines the density index as
>>
>>     integer :: i_lnd ! ln(cell density average by mass) + lnd_offset 
>> to keep value > 1
>>
>> which implies that any values I get from s%xh( s%i_lnd, cell_number) 
>> will be offset by this value lnd_offset. A quick grep of the mesa 
>> directory doesn't turn up any other references to lnd_offset. Is this 
>> actually in use? If so, how do I find out what it is?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matthew
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Kent G. Budge
CCS-2, LANL

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