html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2368#issuecomment-419212304,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2368,419212304,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQxOTIxMjMwNA==,1217238,2018-09-06T19:24:05Z,2018-09-06T19:24:05Z,MEMBER,"> Or no index at all?

This would be my inclination (for the default behavior). It would mean that you could not longer count on anyways being able to do labeled indexing along each dimension, but in the broader scheme of things I don't think that's a big deal.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,350899839
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2368#issuecomment-419202871,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2368,419202871,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQxOTIwMjg3MQ==,1217238,2018-09-06T18:51:11Z,2018-09-06T18:51:11Z,MEMBER,"Currently, xarray requires that variables with a name matching a dimension are 1D variables along that dimension, e.g.,
```python
for dim in dataset.dims:
    if dim in dataset.variables:
        assert dataset.variables[dim].dims == (dim,)
```

I agree that this unnecessarily complicates our data model. There's no particular advantage to this invariant, besides removing the need to check the dimensions of variables used for indexing lookups. I'm sure there are some cases internally where we currently rely on this assumption, but it should be relatively easy to relax.","{""total_count"": 4, ""+1"": 4, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,350899839