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Change signature of PrimitiveScalar::value to return reference #1129
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The use-case is to be able to write generic code that uses scalars with
Array
iterators (for example in arrow2-convert for the deserialization path). This is much easier if thePrimitiveScalar::value()
is consistent with the rest of scalars and returns a reference.This could be too high risk of a change if too many downstream users will be affected, so alternately a new method
PrimitiveScalar::value_ref()
could be introduces that returns the reference. But that seemed less clean, so opted for this change to get feedback. There seems to be good test coverage around scalars, and all the tests are passing.