[GitHub] [arrow] nealrichardson commented on pull request #35543: GH-35542 : [R] Impement schema extraction function

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nealrichardson commented on PR #35543:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/35543#issuecomment-1545804115

   > > I am wondering if the function name schema is too generic and how about to be changed to something like arrow_schmea?
   > 
   > I think that's a good point...particularly since it's an S3 method. `infer_schema()` or `extract_schema()` might also be good choices...we already have `as_schema()` for converting a schema-like object to a Schema. (FWIW I use `infer_nanoarrow_schema()` to do this kind of thing in nanoarrow).
   
   `schema()` exists as a function now (and has since the beginning of the package), this PR seems to be adding additional cases for using it to extract the `$schema` attribute from Arrow objects, and it's doing it via S3 methods rather than `if`s.  If we're worried about the name "schema" colliding with other packages, we would have already seen it already--has anyone?
   
   For what it's worth, I'm personally not a fan of renaming to `verb_schema()`: it's pulling an attribute of the object, so it feels natural that the accessor have the same name as the attribute, as we have e.g. `length.ArrowDatum <- function(x) x$length()`. As a (👴) developer, I don't want to have to remember what `verb_` goes in front, I'd rather just `$schema`.


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