Erik and I discussed this yesterday on a call.
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We ended up just deciding to update the naming to better reflect v4 of Parcels. We can rename:
constants -> contextadd_constant -> add_context
One difficulty to be aware of is that fieldset.my_constant = 2 does not update the constants/context dict (instead defaulting to Python's built-in behaviour of accepting this since "everything is an object"). I think we should disallow setting values via fieldset.my_constant = 2 in favour of fieldset['my_constant']=2 or fieldset.context['my_constant']=2 (the same way and for the same reasons that Xarray does this).
Closing this and opening a new issue for this renaming.
Originally posted by @VeckoTheGecko in #2337
Originally posted by @VeckoTheGecko in #2337