alt Hacker NewsMy instinct is this would get hairy much faster if you want to actually close over variables compared to using a block.
Replies
loeg • yesterday at 4:21 AM
If the verbose return type syntax can't be elided, I think it's more or less dead as a pattern.
Not sure if that is relevant to your point, but: For better and for worse, closing over any outer scope variables is syntactically free in Rust lambdas. You just access them.