## Copyright (C) 2013 Marco Vassallo <gedeone-octave@users.sourceforge.net>
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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## version.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {V} = ResidualForm (name, V, [coefficients])
## This function takes as input the name of the problem that you want to solve 
## and the FunctionSpace where it is defined and return a Form defined with
## the coefficients passed as optional argument.
## @seealso{FunctionSpace, BilinearForm, ResidualForm}
## @end deftypefn

function a = LinearForm (name, V, varargin)

  if nargin < 2
    error ("LinearForm: wrong number of input parameters.");
  elseif ! ischar (name)
    error ("LinearForm: first argument is not a valid string");
  endif

  program = sprintf ("%s_LinearForm(V", name);
   for k = 1:length (varargin)
      eval(['f_' num2str(k) '=varargin{k};']);
      program = strjoin ({ program, strcat('f_',num2str(k))}, ',');
   end

  program = strjoin ({program, ');'});
  a = eval (program);

endfunction