As noted by @Dave-Allured, @ethanrd is attempting to remove restrictions on data types in general. This has broad support. The concern of @martinjuckes is that it would be possible to lift the current restriction on index variables, as is used for ragged arrays. However, this could also be addressed in a separate issue - under the current proposal, ragged arrays would still require integers, but we could change that in the future and in the meantime make use of the new types for other variables.
Is this OK for the group? Barring objections I will merge this after the three week deadline, namely 24 March 2020. -- 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/243#issuecomment-592455682 This list forwards relevant notifications from Github. It is distinct from [email protected], although if you do nothing, a subscription to the UCAR list will result in a subscription to this list. To unsubscribe from this list only, send a message to [email protected].
