wesm opened a new pull request #7419: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7419
Even without the compiler error on VS 2017 I am not a fan of using variant to solve problems like these (so to me this new code is strictly preferable to the old code), nor exposing a variant in public (or "public") APIs unless it is definitely needed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org