Github user davies commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1371#issuecomment-48787905
The original motivation to do in this way is that we hope it can fix the
problem of structure with None in it automatically, but in fact, it do not in
some cases, such as tuple. It's also will help in some cases, such as user
defined objects.
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