Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote
> Could you elaborate a bit on the concrete use case (or a similar example)
> ?

Sure. Say the data rows are events which contain, among other things, the
following fields:
-a date
- an employeeID
- a title (as in position in the company e.g. CEO).

Usually, the title is filled in, but sometimes it's missing. When it's
missing, it can be calculated by `(employees detectID: employeeID) titleOn:
timestamp`*, but if it's present, you should just use the value in the field
because the lookup is inconsistent and expensive.

Thanks for following up!

* The timestamp is necessary because you're actually searching through the
employment history to see the title on that particular date in the past.



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Sean
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