# Confused by behaviour of nested functions

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [February 8, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-by-behaviour-of-nested-functions/20576 "2019-02-08T10:52:35Z")\
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Don’t define functions conditionally inside other functions: [disallow methods of local functions in different blocks · Issue #15602 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/15602).

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