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Closures as a separate exercises appeared to be missing, so I added some. Have placed them in the watch order after functions, which seemed reasonable.
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# Closures
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Closures are a common programming concept found in many languages, but are primarily
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associated with 'functional' programming styles. Closure are anonymous functions
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(i.e. unlike regular functions, they don't have a name) that may access some variables
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from their enclosing scope (they 'close' over their scope, capturing variables).
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Closures are often used as arguments to higher order functions (functions which
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take other functions as parameters), e.g. map(), filter(), reduce() et al on iterators,
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but aren't restricted to these cases.
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Rust's ownership model means that we might have to do something extra when declaring
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closures which other languages don't require.
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## Further information
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- [Closures: Anonymous Functions that Can Capture Their Environment](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch13-01-closures.html) |