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@rhshadrach is there an issue for this?

Thanks @natmokval for the PR. Should the OP be an issue instead.? or is there already an open issue for this?

xref https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/52451#issuecomment-1720767399

`$ pytest pandas/tests --fixtures`

"An issue requiring an urgent decision" could perhaps be ambiguous as different team members may have different definitions of urgency in the context of the project. Maybe, where an "urgent"...

> At least to me the PDEP will be easier to read (and comment on) if you limit the line width, to 80 or similar. sure. > it'd be good...

> “Object” analogous to “Float64”? That's the obvious choice but IIRC the capitalization was considered as confusing/non intuitive by some when discussed with respect to the string dtype.

> > “Object” analogous to “Float64”? > > That's the obvious choice but IIRC the capitalization was considered as confusing/non intuitive by some when discussed with respect to the string...

Also note that in the PDEP it was written "tentatively named `"object_nullable"`" based on the passage of PDEP-14 which needed a sub discussion to address. The words chosen purposely not...

> > it'd be good if you can provide information on how using a boolean mask compares to having `pandas.NA` inside the main array. > > using a sentinel as...