Michael Tiller wrote:
John Caron wrote:
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.
Not to nitpick, but the example in the User's guide uses
addDimension(String dimName, int length) where length=-1 to indicate an
unlimited dimension. This seems perfectly natural to me (i.e. an
unlimited dimension having an exceptional value to indicate its
unlimited nature). But your statements here + my experience indicates
that the user's guide is wrong (which would be a shame since I like the
user's guide approach).
Am I missing something?
user guide is very old, it will get rewritten Real Soon Now.
--
Mike
