This mailing list thread is going to be the discussion. The union types also use two characters, so I didn’t think it would be a problem.
— Felipe On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 15:26 Dewey Dunnington <de...@voltrondata.com.invalid> wrote: > I'm sorry for missing earlier discussion on this or a PR into the > format where this discussion may have occurred...is there a reason > that +lv and +Lv were chosen over a single-character version (i.e., > maybe +v and +V)? A single-character version is (slightly) easier to > parse in C. > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 2:00 PM Felipe Oliveira Carvalho > <felipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing to propose "+lv" and "+Lv" as format strings for list-view > and > > large list-view arrays passing through the Arrow C data interface [1]. > > > > The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. > > > > [ ] +1 - I'm in favor of this new C Data Format string > > [ ] +0 > > [ ] -1 - I'm against adding this new format string because.... > > > > Thanks everyone! > > > > -- > > Felipe > > > > [1] https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/CDataInterface.html >
