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Clean up E0373 explanation
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GuillaumeGomez committed Feb 26, 2020
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This error occurs when an attempt is made to use data captured by a closure,
when that data may no longer exist. It's most commonly seen when attempting to
return a closure:
A captured variable in a closure may not live long enough.

Erroneous code example:

```compile_fail,E0373
fn foo() -> Box<Fn(u32) -> u32> {
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}
```

This error occurs when an attempt is made to use data captured by a closure,
when that data may no longer exist. It's most commonly seen when attempting to
return a closure as shown in the previous code example.

Notice that `x` is stack-allocated by `foo()`. By default, Rust captures
closed-over data by reference. This means that once `foo()` returns, `x` no
longer exists. An attempt to access `x` within the closure would thus be
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