Descriptive aliases for F(n), D(n), R(n) and ALAG(n)

[kylebaron]

For example

$CMT CENT

$MAIN
F_CENT = 0.67;
ALAG_CENT = 0.56;

[vjd]

This would be really helpful

[kylebaron]

I was talking to Bill Denny about it. It would be more than just a convenience ... could really help prevent mistakes.

We can implement this:

$CMT CENT
$MAIN
F_CENT = 0.67;

Easily. But there would have to be one alias for every compartment x 4 (for D,F,R,and ALAG). Maybe it's not that big of a deal ... but it could start to be big number with the large models.

We can already do this

$CMT CENT
$MAIN
F(N_CENT) = 0.67;

So ... N_CENT is the number of the CENT compartment; that's already in there ... you just have to ask for it. Is isn't quite as clean as the first approach, but seems to be a little more sensible implementation (you could totally use N_CENT for a lot of things).

Either way, I think those leading underscores are getting dropped in the next version ... or at least we will put in extra definitions so that you can use F(1) or _F(1); hopefully the _F(1) will go away with time.

[kylebaron]

I forgot to ask the question:
is F(N_CENT) so clunky that we should be brute forcing it with F_GUT, F_CENT, F_PERIPH, F_RESPONSE, etc... ?