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Wes McKinney edited comment on ARROW-8956 at 5/27/20, 2:43 AM:
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The only options for this function at the moment are true or false
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/compare.h#L114
This is data structure equality, not elementwise analytic equality
was (Author: wesmckinn):
The only options for this function at the moment are true or false
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/compare.h#L114
> [C++] arrow::ScalarEquals returns false when values are both null
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> Key: ARROW-8956
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8956
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
> Priority: Major
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> I wasn't sure if this was deliberate but it appeared while writing unit tests
> and so wanted to check what was the intention before changing it. Arrays
> compare equal when null slots are respectively null so this seems
> inconsistent.
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