Lifetime and scope clarification in Closure types reference.
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As I understood so far, lifetime is affecting the borrowing rules enforcement, scope on the other hand, has to do with memory deallocation. Most of the time, these two concepts are not overlapped. The only case I'm aware they do, is that of the temporary variables in `let` statements.
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As I understood so far, lifetime is affecting the borrowing rules enforcement, scope on the other hand, has to do with memory deallocation.
The variables' lifetime ends the last time the compiler locates its usage, whereas the scope ends with a distinct symbol, i.e. right bracket.