Rust: how to return a closure from a function, and what are closures anyway?

Sometimes we want to return a closure from a function, and sometimes that doesn't work the way we might expect. This will lead us on to how we should think of closures: they're not really like functions so much as automatically-generated structs with types we are not allowed to name. And all closures have different types, even if they're identical...?

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