Hi,
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:02:44PM +0200, Felix Höfling wrote:
The section "general organization" says that the ``observables``
group "contains all time-dependent variables in the system, except
the ones found in the ``particles`` group."
I find this statement too restrictive in 2 directions: It forbids
any other root groups in addition to "particles". Second, it forbids
to store time-independent observables (which for some applications
might be a useful option).
I suggest to rephrase without excluding additional data sets or root
groups:
The ``observables`` group contains data of physical observables,
i.e. quantities that are derived from the system state at given
points in time.
What do you think?
I think that this is restrictive also.
"""
``observables``: Group containing other physical quantities (typically)
of
interest.
"""
is general enough and suggests "physical quantities" while not being
overly
restrictive with respect to the content of the group or to the
time-dependence.
We could even drop the "(typically)" while maintaining the necessary
freedom
that I like.
Of all, I still prefer the current one :-)