Problem with Lexical Scope

[jslowery at gmail.com]

Thanks for the example code. Definately provided a few different ways
of doing the construction.

Actually, the status variable was the only thing that mattered for the
inner function.  The first code post had a bug b/c I was first just
trying to use reduce. However, I realized that the boolean reducer
ended up using the boolean result instead of the next field for
subsequent operations.

The effect I was going for was was a logical AND of all the returned
values from reducer. However the inner function is supposed to use the
same type algorithm as the built-in reduce function.

reducer does have no side effects so I suppose short-circuting it would
be the best thing. I think the only thing about the last example is
that it starts things off with a zero. I think that would boink it.

The way that this thing works is it's a general algorithm for boolean
operations that are applied to fields in a dict.

def lt(*fields):
    return collect(fields, lambda x, y: x < y)

data = {
  'birth_date' : 19740201,
  'hire_date' : 19840721,
  'fire_date' :   19850123
}

rule = lt('birth_date', 'hire_date')
assert rule(data) == True