Should we allow compartments of different length in a single branch?

[michaeldeistler]

NEURON does not allow this. Also, the following might be misleading in neurax:

branch.set_params("length", 10.0)

because it might appear that the branch will have length 10.0. But in fact, every compartment in the branch will have length 10.0.

[jnsbck]

If its trivial to do, I would keep this as an option. What would the reasons for not doing it be ?

[michaeldeistler]

To be clear: jaxley does allow compartments of different lenghts right now, even in a single branch.

The reason to remove this feature would be purely that it can be a bit misleading (as written above in the code example). But I agree that this is not a high-priority thing to change, and I am not even sure if we should enforce it.

[jnsbck]

One could also warn the user when they call branch.set_params("length", 10.0).

[michaeldeistler]

yes definitely also possible