Followup to ARROW-6784. See discussion on https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5686, as well as ARROW-6959.

Reporter: Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson
Assignee: Wes McKinney / @wesm

Related issues:

• [C++] C++ array kernels framework and execution buildout (umbrella issue) (is a child of)
• [C++][Compute] Formalize "metafunction" concept (relates to)

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