% Closures
There is a new edition of the book and this is an old link.
> Anonymous functions you can save in a variable or pass as arguments to other functions.
```rust
# use std::thread;
# use std::time::Duration;
let expensive_closure = |num| {
println!("calculating slowly...");
thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(2));
num
};
# expensive_closure(5);
```
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Here are the relevant sections in the new and old books:
* **[in the current edition: Ch 13.01 — Closures][2]**
* [In the first edition: Ch 3.23 — Closures][1]
[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.30.0/book/first-edition/closures.html
[2]: ch13-01-closures.html