Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1428#issuecomment-49205341
It doesn't bring much benefit right now, but what we are doing here is
creating patterns in NullPropagation to specify the semantics of each
individual expression ... not very scalable in maintaining this code base.
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