Erik,
Charlie's proposal is heavily oriented towards ensembles. I tend to favor
hierarchical scoping, but every option has one sort of weakness or another.
Grace and peace,
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Erik Quaeghebeur <
E.R.G.Quaeghebeur at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Dear Daniel,
>
>
> Charlie Zender has led the effort on a draft extension for using groups in
>> CF, which I think is very important. You can find it here:
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KK6IZ2ZmpaUTVgrw-GlFd6al
>> mppjvGz6D7nxVTO3BtI/edit
>>
>
> Thanks, that is an interesting read. (Just skimmed the start for now.)
>
> [?], or at least indicate your support if they're in line with your
>> requirements. It sounds like your setup would essentially be using an
>> intuitive "scoping" mechanism to make higher-level metadata "visible"
>> "from" groups lower down the tree, goes in the direction of work done so
>> far..
>>
>
> Yes this scoping approach is what I had in mind. I support that.
>
> The lateral search in case the referred to coordinates are not found
> higher in the hierarchy is asking for trouble, though, IMHO. How can users
> know the search order? It makes it dangerous to reuse names of (coordinate)
> variables, forcing unique names throughout, negating one of the advantages
> of a hierarchical approach: structure to order instead of overly long
> naming conventions.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Erik
>
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