[ARROW-2475] [Format] Confusing array length description

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18671
• Assignee: Uwe Korn
• Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
• Created: 19/Apr/18 07:37
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:21
• Resolved: 14/Dec/18 22:47

Description

"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`