What does Rust's unary || (parallel pipe) mean?

Question

In Non-Lexical Lifetimes: Introduction, Niko includes the following snippet:

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Answer 1

It is a closure with zero arguments. This is a simplified example to show the basic syntax and usage (play):

fn main() {
    let c = || println!("c called");
    c();
    c();
}

This prints:

c called
c called

Another example from the documentation:

let plus_one = |x: i32| x + 1;

assert_eq!(2, plus_one(1));

Answer 2

It's a zero-argument lambda function.