Re: [h5md-user] proposal 100 - update

[Peter Colberg]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 08:46:56AM +0200, Pierre de Buyl wrote:
> But, in another likely usage, imagine that step is not linear and that
> time[i]=step[i]*DT for all values of i.
> 
> My "new" extension is that if you have a non-scalar dataset for "step" and a
> scalar dataset for "time", you can compute the value in time as
> time[i]=step[i]*time

If time depends on step, I would suggest this scheme:

  \-- step[Inf]
  |    +-- timestep: Float[]
  \-- value[Inf, …]

However, to keep things simple, I would not favour this extension. If
one already goes through the trouble of writing the variable-length
step dataset, it is not much more work to write the time dataset using
the same datatype and dataspace.

Peter