Dear Jonathan, I did indeed mean prescribed - thanks.
My motivation for this comes from trying to write generic library code to read/write CF-netCDF datasets in a a wholly CF-compliant fashion. As you can tell, I have never been clear in my mind what the problem I was trying to solve actually was, for which apologies. Your first suggestion (that there is in fact no defect after all) is fine by me, so I am tempted to close and withdraw the issue, pending further opinions. All the best, David -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/147#issuecomment-429620099
