[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-4567?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16852594#comment-16852594 ]
Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-4567: ------------------------------------- cc [~fsaintjacques] > [C++] Convert Scalar values to Array values with length 1 > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-4567 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-4567 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: C++ > Reporter: Wes McKinney > Priority: Major > Fix For: 0.14.0 > > > A common approach to performing operations on both scalar and array values is > to treat a Scalar as an array of length 1. For example, we cannot currently > use our Cast kernels to cast a Scalar. It would be senseless to create > separate kernel implementations specialized for a single value, and much > easier to promote a scalar to an Array, execute the kernel, then unbox the > result back into a Scalar -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)