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Author SHA1 Message Date
1071d413a3 ENH: add ROOTGREAT constants (symmetry with ROOTSMALL)
ENH: add some scalar constants for .org compatibility (#1881)

Although it can very much be a moving target, it can prove partly
useful to have some compatibility constants/methods.

- The wholesale change of 'GREAT' -> 'great' etc (JAN-2018), makes
  user coding for multiple versions problematic. When
  COMPAT_OPENFOAM_ORG is defined, now define constants (aliases) named
  as per the openfoam.org version. Values, however, remain identical.

- For type-safe dictionary value retrieval, we have the templated
  get<> methods added around NOV-2018 and deprecated the lookupType
  method.

  The .org version followed suit in NOV-2019, but opted for renaming
  the templated lookupType method as a templated 'lookup' method.

  Using this is discouraged, but allowed when COMPAT_OPENFOAM_ORG is
  defined.
2020-10-19 21:14:17 +02:00
8d5f28bcc0 ENH: dictionary add/set methods now return a pointer to the entry
- If the entry could be directly inserted: a pointer to the inserted entry.
- If a dictionary merge was required: a pointer to the dictionary that
  received the entry.
- Return nullptr on any type of insertion failure.

This change is code compatible with existing code since it only alters
a bool return value to be a pointer return value.
2017-11-08 17:43:28 +01:00