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I recently did a code review with @Jim Kring about upcoming Caraya 1.0 (yeah, I know, I'm using the opportunity to plug Caraya... shame on me), and when I showed him this block diagram, his eyes immediately caught the top comment I placed on the block diagram. It took him less than two seconds to say something like: "You have to put that on the Idea Exchange." (Jim, let me know if I'm misquoting you) Indeed, the Block Diagram... erm... the Mother of All Diagrams... does not have a Subdiagram label property. I say this is a grave injustice. So anyhow, I wanted to share the paternity of this idea because without his enthusiasm, it would not be there: https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Subdiagram-label-for-Block-Diagrams-too/idi-p/4033465 If you like it, please vote!

So I just discovered this, this morning and I think it will help out in making VIMs when dealing with supporting a scalar, or 1D array data type. I have an example which is my Filter 1D Array VIM, posted here, which is heavily inspired by OpenG's implementation. In it the developer can filter out a scalar, or a 1D array of something from a 1D array. I did this by adding a Type Specialized structure at the start which checks to see if after building the array, if the data type matched in the incoming array. If so it is a scalar and should be used. I then have another case where the data just goes straight through thinking it must already be a 1D array. But what I realized today is that is unnecessary. If in the VIM my input is set to a 1D array, and we add a build array with only 1 terminal, and that build array is set to Concatenate, then that whole structure isn't needed. A Scalar will become a 1D array with one element, and a 1D array will have no items added to it after the build array. In this example the code simplification isn't much, but someone may have had two cases in a type specialized structure which handle scalar and 1D array separately and using this they could be combined them into one. And one other minor thing, I don't think I will actually be updating the Filter 1D Array VIM to use this, just because knowing if the input is a scalar means other sorting work not shown can be ignored helping performance.