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[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-1489) [C++] Add casting option to set unsafe casts to null rather than some garbage value

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1489?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17116047#comment-17116047 ] 

Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-1489:
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This might yield some code bloat but would still be useful to have in our repertoire 

> [C++] Add casting option to set unsafe casts to null rather than some garbage value
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-1489
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1489
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: C++
>            Reporter: Wes McKinney
>            Priority: Major
>
> Null is the obvious choice when certain casts fail, like string to number, but in other kinds of unsafe casts there may be more ambiguity. 



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