Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1063#issuecomment-92457478
The biggest reason for the divergence is this API is much lighter weight
(you can define functions in a single line, inline with the rest of your
program). We can certainly consider adding more support for function listing
metadata in the future, but you are the first to ask for this.
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