Re: Deprecate nfields function?

[John W. Eaton]

On 03/01/2014 03:03 PM, Rik wrote:

> There was definitely no criticism on my part.  These things do evolve and
> it is hard to pick exactly the correct strategy both for today and for 20
> years from today.  Do we want to rename nfields to something else
> (numfields, numfld, numflds) or remove it entirely?

If we decide to keep it, I'd say just leave it alone.

But if everyone thinks that nfields is a horrible name, then I prefer 
numfields.  numfld and numflds don't seem any better than nfields to me 
while numfields is at least similar to numel.

jwe