The same pattern can also be useful in Rust for early returning Result<_,_> errors (you cannot `let x = foo()?` inside of a normal block like that).

    let config: Result<i32, i32> = {
        Ok(
            "1234".parse::<i32>().map_err(|_| -1)?
        )
    };

would fail to compile, or worse: would return out of the entire method if surrounding method would have return type Result<_,i32>. On the other hand,

    let config: Result<i32, i32> = (||{
        Ok(
            "1234".parse::<i32>().map_err(|_| -1)?
        )
    })();

runs just fine.

Hopefully try blocks will allow using ? inside of expression blocks in the future, though.