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#95: Development of CF 1.5 Data Model
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  Reporter:  markh           |       Owner:  [email protected]
      Type:  task            |      Status:  new                          
  Priority:  medium          |   Milestone:                               
 Component:  cf-conventions  |     Version:                               
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:                               
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Comment (by davidhassell):

 Hello Mark,

 > > The domain axes don't need to be ordered, because they have identities
 other than their size (independently of any associtated coordinates).
 >
 > I thought this was explicitly not the case.  I do not see anything in
 the discussions about the domain axis that provides an identity.  Please
 may you describe further what this identity is?

 Domain axis identity was discussed a bit in ticket #68, but looking back
 at that, perhaps the type of domain axis identity I meant was not clear.
 I'll try to explain.

 A domain axis has an identity ''in the model'' by virtue of the fact that
 it is a construct independent of other similar constructs. It doesn't have
 an identity in the same way that a coordinate has a standard name.

 By way of simple analogy, in a computer program you might say something
 like:

 {{{
 x=2
 y=3
 }}}

 Here, both variables x and y are integers, but they've got different
 ''names'' and you could use those variable names to declare an array, for
 example:

 {{{
 a=Array_of_Floats(y, x)
 }}}

 I hope that makes sense,

 All the best,

 David

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