Make Nansat immutable

[akorosov]

There was a suggestion on Nansat lectures to make Nansat immutable: https://github.com/nansencenter/nansat-lectures/issues/3

That implies that reproject, crop, etc do not change the object but rather return new, modified object. Two Advantages:

• it is possible to reason about n without tracing all possible mutations;
• you can express multiple processors starting at n without worrying that one will mutate n and make it unusable for the other;
• Operations can be easily chained: n.reproject(...).write_figure(...)
• Assurance during processing by tiles in a distributed (cluster) environment

Something to read about: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/151733/if-immutable-objects-are-good-why-do-people-keep-creating-mutable-objects

[aleksandervines]

+1 seems a more logical approach

[knutfrode]

+1 yes, these are good arguments.

2016-03-17 9:49 GMT+01:00 Aleksander Vines [email protected]:

+1 seems a more logical approach

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