jorgecarleitao commented on a change in pull request #9469:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9469#discussion_r574716119
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File path: rust/arrow/src/array/array.rs
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@@ -326,6 +327,174 @@ pub fn new_empty_array(data_type: &DataType) -> ArrayRef {
let data = ArrayData::new_empty(data_type);
make_array(Arc::new(data))
}
+/// Creates a new array with null slots of `length`
+pub fn new_array_with_nulls(data_type: &DataType, length: usize) -> ArrayRef {
Review comment:
I prefer `new_null_array`. The dataType arg makes it obvious that this
is not the `NullArray`, but is a small thing.
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