[GRASS-dev] r.volume 'data' parameter

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Just looking at r.volume today...the 'data' parameter is a pretty unconventional name for a Grass raster program. Wouldn't
a rename to 'input' or 'map' be more in keeping with other raster modules?

I didn't want to modify the source in case there was a good reason for it being called 'data'.

~ Eric.

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Hi,

2008/1/10, Patton, Eric <epatton@nrcan.gc.ca>:

Just looking at r.volume today...the 'data' parameter is a pretty unconventional name for a Grass raster program. Wouldn't
a rename to 'input' or 'map' be more in keeping with other raster modules?

I didn't want to modify the source in case there was a good reason for it being called 'data'.

I guess, these kind of changes cannot be done in grass6 because of
backward compatability, need to wait for grass7.

Martin

~ Eric.
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Just looking at r.volume today...the 'data' parameter is a pretty unconventional name for a Grass raster program. Wouldn't
a rename to 'input' or 'map' be more in keeping with other raster modules?

I didn't want to modify the source in case there was a good reason for it being called 'data'.

I guess, these kind of changes cannot be done in grass6 because of
backward compatability, need to wait for grass7.

Martin

Thanks, I've placed a note about it on the Grass7 ideas collection on the wiki:

http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_7_ideas_collection

~ Eric.