jonasdedden commented on code in PR #51611:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/51611#discussion_r4370202905


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cpp/src/arrow/compute/kernels/scalar_nested.cc:
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@@ -537,6 +540,439 @@ const FunctionDoc list_element_doc(
      "is emitted. Null values emit a null in the output."),
     {"lists", "index"});
 
+// The types "equal" compares `values` and `queries` as, raising the errors it 
would.
+// float16, which "equal" lacks, is compared as float32, and binary views as 
large
+// binary.
+Result<std::vector<TypeHolder>> ComparableTypes(
+    KernelContext* ctx, const std::shared_ptr<DataType>& values_type,
+    const std::shared_ptr<DataType>& queries_type) {
+  std::vector<TypeHolder> types;
+  for (const auto& type : {values_type, queries_type}) {
+    types.emplace_back(type->id() == Type::HALF_FLOAT ? float32() : type);

Review Comment:
   Fixed in c47a14b: dictionaries are now decoded before float16 is compared as 
float32, for both values and queries, with tests for both directions.



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