All ways to define functions in Julia?

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I don’t think so. In my example,

function fn_generator()
    if true
        f() = 0
    else
        f(x, y) = x+y
    end
end

both method definitions are returned:

julia> fn_generator()
(::var"#f#1") (generic function with 2 methods)

However, if instead I say

function fn_generator2()
    if false
        f(x, y) = x+y
    else
        f() = 0
    end
end

then I get an error:

julia> fn_generator2()
ERROR: UndefVarError: f not defined

Is that intended?

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