466: Mainline

You can also use status bits to reflect the state of any computational entity such as the state of a chunk of data or the state of a running program.

For example, you might want to use a status variable to keep track of several general characteristics of the data that the analyze_trades program has processed:

• Are there enough trade data?
• Are there too many trade data?
• Are any of the trade-price data corrupted?
• Are any of the trade-size data corrupted?