What is the difference bewteen || async {} vs. async || {}?

The following code works:

let url = url::Url::parse(url).unwrap();
let (ws_stream, _) = connect_async(url).await.expect("Failed to connect");
let (_, read) = ws_stream.split();
read.for_each( |message| async {})
// ...

But for the follow code

let url = url::Url::parse(url).unwrap();
let (ws_stream, _) = connect_async(url).await.expect("Failed to connect");
let (_, read) = ws_stream.split();
read.for_each(async |message| {})
// ...

I get:

= note: see issue #62290 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/62290 for more information
= help: add #![feature(async_closure)] to the crate attributes to enable
= note: this error originates in a macro (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info)

What is the difference bewteen || async {} vs. async || {}? Aren't they all async closure?

|| async {} is the ordinary closure, which returns async block. It is equivalent to the following:

|| {
    return async {
        // code here
    };
}
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They are pretty similar, there’s discussion in the original RFC about it: rfcs/2394-async_await.md at master · rust-lang/rfcs · GitHub

The current async/await support is basically an “MVP” with a minimal useful subset of the features listed in the RFC, and these were considered too similar to need both right away. Should be fixed in the future.

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