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Rok Mihevc commented on ARROW-4567: ----------------------------------- This issue has been migrated to [issue #21113|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21113] on GitHub. Please see the [migration documentation|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14542] for further details. > [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 > > 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 (v8.20.10#820010)