[GitHub] [arrow] bkietz commented on a change in pull request #10196: ARROW-12575: [R] Use unary negative kernel

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bkietz commented on a change in pull request #10196:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10196#discussion_r625890460



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File path: r/R/expression.R
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@@ -56,13 +56,9 @@ build_array_expression <- function(FUN,
                                    args = list(...),
                                    options = empty_named_list()) {
   if (FUN == "-" && length(args) == 1L) {
-    # Unary -, i.e. just make it negative, and somehow this works
     if (inherits(args[[1]], c("ArrowObject", "array_expression"))) {
-      # Make it be 0 - arg
-      # TODO(ARROW-11950): do this in C++ compute
-      args <- list(0L, args[[1]])
+      return(build_array_expression("negate", args[[1]]))

Review comment:
       I think the edge case which `negate_checked` watches for is probably not necessary here. @edponce 




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