Re: Here's how to remove 'time' from a processing problem

On 21/12/2022 13:25, Roger L Costello wrote:
> I have a program that processes XML files in a folder. Some of the 
> XML documents contain data about a car, [...] At some point 

I think, the wrong point.

> the program reads in that XML document and begins processing it. The 
> objective of processing is to output the license plate number if the 
> car is stolen and "" (not stolen) otherwise. However, the document 
> does not contain the necessary information to make that decision.
> The information to make the decision arrives some time later,

This looks like a case of putting the cart before the horse.

> So the desired processing behavior is this:

The conventional sequence of processing would be more likely to start by 
processing a police report. It looks up the car in the documents in the 
folder about cars. If there is a match, then perform whatever action is 
required, then go onto the next police report until they are all 
finished, then stop and wait for more police reports to arrive.

I see no benefit in processing this back-to-front.

Peter


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