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[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-2475) [SPEC] Confusing array length description

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2475?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16443753#comment-16443753 ] 

Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-2475:
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What do you find confusing exactly? Feel free to submit a PR making the text clearer.

> [SPEC] Confusing array length description
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-2475
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2475
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Documentation
>            Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
>            Priority: Trivial
>
> "To encourage developers to compose smaller arrays (each of which contains contiguous memory in its leaf nodes) to create larger array structures possibly exceeding 2^31 - 1 elements, as opposed to allocating very large contiguous memory blocks."
> I think it could use a little more verbose explanation: `to compose smaller arrays to create larger array structures`



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