Design of label field for DimArray about dimensionaldata.jl HOT 3 CLOSED

Most of the time I want to inherit the name. After getindex, view etc the data is still the same thing. Like "surface_temp".

Even after mean/median whatever the content is still from the same source and the name still has a similar meaning.

But after zero, one or similar there is nothing but the type and the dimensions.

If we make name a parameter of the standard rebuild we can reset the name in similar, or we can do it automatically in the kwargs version of rebuild as that just leverages ConstructionBase anyway.

from dimensionaldata.jl.

The field is name, label is a composite for display... But I've been thinking about this too. It is odd when you use zero() or something on a GeoArray and it keeps the name, and you have to do rebuild(a; name="x") or GeoArray(A; name="x") or @set a.name = "x" with Setfield.jl.

Maybe we could and pass an empty name to a rebuild in similar().

from dimensionaldata.jl.

Maybe we could and pass an empty name to a rebuild in similar().

Sorry, I didn't understand this. Can you explain it a bit more? In general you also think that inheriting name does not make sense for most methods, right?

from dimensionaldata.jl.