On 10/10/2017 04:48 PM, NeilBrown wrote:

On Mon, Oct 09 2017, Phil Turmel wrote:

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Might it be reasonable to reject "--grow" operations that reduce the
final array size, and introduce the complementary "--reduce" operation
that rejects array size increases?

While there is a lot to like about this approach, one problem is that
some "grow" operations do not change the size. They might, e.g., just change
the chunksize.

I tried to word my proposal to address that -- either keyword could
accept operations that didn't change the size.

I guess you could have --grow --reduce --reshape.

I wouldn't object to such a change.

Jes has weighed in as opposed.  Sigh.

Phil