I feel I am missing a simpler approach to replicating the behaviour of a
Matlab structure. I am doing FEM, and require structure like behaviour for
my model initialisation and mesh generation. Currently I am using composite
type definitions, such as:
type Mesh
coords :: Array{Float64,2}
elements :: Array{Float64,2}
end
but in actuality I have many required fields (20 for Mesh, for example). It
seems to me very impractical to initialise an instance of Mesh via
mesh = Mesh(field1, field2, field3, ..., field20),
as this would require a lookup of the type definition every time to ensure
correct ordering. None of my fields have standard "default" values.
Is there an easier way to do this that I have overlooked? In Matlab I can
just define the fields as I compute their values, using "Mesh.coords =
...", and this would work here except that I need to initialise Mesh before
the "." field referencing will work.
First post, so apologies if I have failed to observe etiquette rules.
