Re: Questions

Eric Davies wrote:
> At 08:30 AM 1/17/2006, you wrote:
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> > Hi Michael:
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> > Michael Tiller wrote:
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> > you need the dimension time to be shared, so change to
> >      Dimension time = file.addDimension("time", 4, true, false, false);
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> 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.