# Can a function returns a partial function?

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**Created:** [December 18, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-a-function-returns-a-partial-function/32413 "2019-12-18T00:14:07Z")\
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You should not need `eval` for this. A closure is fine, eg

```julia
f(x, y, z) = x + y + z
y, z = 2, 3
g = x -> f(x, y, z)
g(1)

```

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