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/190#issuecomment-52151665,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/190,52151665,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDUyMTUxNjY1,1217238,2014-08-14T07:24:29Z,2014-08-14T07:24:29Z,MEMBER,"Actually, I am going to go ahead and rename `noncoordinates` to `noncoords`. Deprecating/removing that property will have to wait.

Otherwise everything was done in #194.
","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,38848839
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/190#issuecomment-52012201,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/190,52012201,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDUyMDEyMjAx,1217238,2014-08-13T05:48:28Z,2014-08-13T07:48:59Z,MEMBER,"I've decided that we _do_ want to switch to using `coords` and `dims`.

I have _not_ renamed `noncoordinates` to `noncoords`. I'm going to deprecate that property instead (#211).

Also I haven't renamed `xray.Coordinate` yet -- that will probably become `xray.CoordIndex` eventually (#197) but for now is OK.
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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/190#issuecomment-50713976,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/190,50713976,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDUwNzEzOTc2,1217238,2014-07-31T05:26:39Z,2014-07-31T05:26:39Z,MEMBER,"There is at least one major advantage to using abbreviations: less typing and shorter lines of code!

e.g., compare:

``` python
x = xray.Coord('x', np.arange(10))
y = xray.Coord('y', ['a', 'b', 'c'])
arr = xray.DataArray(data, dims=['x', 'y'], coords=[x, y])
'x' in arr.dims
```

and

``` python
x = xray.Coordinate('x', np.arange(10))
y = xray.Coordinate('y', ['a', 'b', 'c'])
arr = xray.DataArray(data, dimensions=['x', 'y'], coordinates=[x, y])
'x' in arr.dimensions
```

h5py does use `dims` instead of `dimensions`: http://docs.h5py.org/en/2.3/high/dims.html and Iris also uses the abbreviations ""dim"" and ""coord"".

These are pretty common/obvious abbreviations and they are fundamental enough that I would not worry about imposing them on our users.

Right now, I am leaning toward switching to _always_ using `dim`/`dims` and `coord`/`coords`/`Coord` before the 0.2 release. But I don't want to be too hasty about this -- any opinions out there? The counter argument would be that I should stop wasting my time bike-shedding (especially after I've already released this stuff out in the wild).
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