# Defining a function inside if...else..end NOT as expected?

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** scope\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/defining-a-function-inside-if-else-end-not-as-expected/13815 "2018-08-21T09:12:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomtom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tomtom/32/5106_2.png) [@tomtom](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tomtom)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/defining-a-function-inside-if-else-end-not-as-expected/13815/6 "2018-08-21T10:16:06Z")

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thanks.

I just think that closure is very essential to functional programming. And, defining (mulitplely dispatched) functions according to different conditions is very natural …

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