Re: Questions

• To: Eric Davies <Eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Questions
• From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:17:33 -0700

Eric Davies wrote:

At 08:30 AM 1/17/2006, you wrote:

Hi Michael:

Michael Tiller wrote:

...

you need the dimension time to be shared, so change to
     Dimension time = file.addDimension("time", 4, true, false, false);

is there any good reason for a dimension not to be shared?

from a documentation point of view, having two unrelated dimensions with the same name

sounds like a bad thing.

I would reccomend to always make dimensions shared, the only possible exception 
is for char[] lengths.

The reason its there is to support other file formats that often dont share 
dimension, eg HDF.

So use:

public Dimension addDimension(String dimName, int length);

unless its the unlimited dimension, in which case you need the other one.

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