Re: Preliminary HDF5 Dimension documents

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• Subject: Re: Preliminary HDF5 Dimension documents
• From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:22:17 -0500 (CDT)

Hi Russ,

> I wrote:
> 
> > Currently, each netCDF dimension must have a unique name.  There are
> > several reasons for this:
>   ...
> >  4.  To distinguish between dimensions that happen to have the same
> >      length but that are intended to represent distinct dimensions.
> >      If two variable's dimensions are not related, we recommend
> >      creating separate dimensions for them, even if they happen to
> >      have the same length.
> 
> In rereading this after I posted it, I realize it's not really a valid
> reason to require names for dimensions.  Distinct anonymous dimensions
> that happen to have the same length are still distinct and presumably
> distinguishable ...
    Yup. :-)

        Quincey

• References:
  • Re: Preliminary HDF5 Dimension documents
    • From: Russ Rew