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[Patrick Farrell <patrick.farrell06@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/06/12 16:06, Simon Funke wrote:
> Can we just have SteadyParameter and a NonsteadyParameter and deduct
> the rest automatically?

I think we can do a lot of inference, but like Simon pointed out,
there's some cases where we can't without some user help. Suppose
we have a Function that changes in time (so there's u_0, u_1, ..).
If we pass Parameter(u), do we mean the initial condition (if it were
a "state variable") or that each u_n is independent (if it were a
"source term")? We can't distinguish between those cases, I think?

Patrick