#157: Clarification to Section 2.3 - Naming Conventions
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Reporter: ros | Owner: cf-conventions@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: medium | Milestone:
Component: cf-conventions | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by davidhassell):
Hello,
Starting an attribute with a [0-9] (e.g. `133Xe_concentration`) is a
different case to starting it with an underscore (e.g. `_myAttribute`),
because of the netCDF "system use" rule. I think that I'm in favour of
disallowing leading underscores, because of the potential conflicts
between the netCDF and CF namespaces. Could we allow:
Variable, dimension and attribute names '''must''' begin with a letter
'''or digit''' ...
Are there many existing dataset which use leading underscores?
David
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