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On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 3:35 PM Deepak Cherian <notifications@github.com>
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> Thanks for the review @TomAugspurger <https://github.com/TomAugspurger>
>
> Question on the name template. I think in dask.dataframe and dask.array
> we might call this meta. Is that keyword already used elsewhere in
> xarray? template is also a fine name though.
>
> I added the meta kwarg to apply_ufunc so that users could pass that down
> to dask i.e. that meta = dask's meta = np.ndarray or something like that.
> So I'd like to avoid reusing meta here where it would exclusively be an
> xarray object ≠ dask's meta
>
> BUT it seems to me like there's a better name than template. Any ideas?
>
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