Hello Nan, et al.,
> Any of these special characters, other than the '_', would probably
> cause problems for code that deals with NetCDF files. The '.' is
> used in Matlab for access to structures, and the '_at_' is used to
> identify a variable as a function handle. There are work-arounds,
> but they likely wouldn't add efficiency or elegance to our code.
I have a grave feeling that I'm missing your point here, but the
attribute names are just strings which need to be split according to a
string-valued delimiter. There is no interaction with the syntax of
the processing language, surely?
> I agree with Roy that CF should be the default namespace in a CF
> compliant file, and that this problem belongs to groups that are writing
> extensions.
I aggree with this, too.
All the best,
David
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