[ARROW-9390] [C++] Review compute function names

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17265
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 09/Jul/20 17:43
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:06
• Resolved: 14/Jul/20 16:05

Description

We should probably make compute function naming more consistent while it's not too late.

Examples:

• "isin", "minmax" but "less_equal", "or_kleene", "binary_contains_exact"
• "binary_contains_exact" only works on string types
• "ascii_length" accepts non-ascii input and simply counts the number of bytes
• "partition_to_indices" vs. "NthToIndices"

Issue Links

• incorporates: ARROW-9444 [C++][Doc] Undocumented compute functions (string_isalpha, etc.)
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7755
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7760
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7764