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@chills42 chills42 commented Oct 6, 2015

This is to address issue #28803 by improving some of the references to closures, to explain what they are more clearly, while hopefully still being concise.

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close over an environment. Rust has a really great implementation of them, as
we’ll see.
Sometimes it is useful to wrap up a function and free variables for better
clarity and reuse. The _free variables_ that can be used come from the
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I would put the hightlight on the first usage rather than the second, I think, but I can't quite say why

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Totally reasonable, probably better to call out the terminology on the first use.

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Thanks @chills42 ! This is an improvement for sure, just have some nits :)

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chills42 commented Oct 7, 2015

@steveklabnik I think this is all good to go now.

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@bors: r+ rollup

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bors commented Oct 7, 2015

📌 Commit 7895ec2 has been approved by steveklabnik

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Thank you!

steveklabnik added a commit to steveklabnik/rust that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2015
This is to address issue rust-lang#28803 by improving some of the references to closures, to explain what they are more clearly, while hopefully still being concise.

r? @steveklabnik
steveklabnik added a commit to steveklabnik/rust that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2015
This is to address issue rust-lang#28803 by improving some of the references to closures, to explain what they are more clearly, while hopefully still being concise.

r? @steveklabnik
bors added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2015
@bors bors merged commit 7895ec2 into rust-lang:master Oct 8, 2015
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