# Documentation about using anonymous and named functions with pmap

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [January 6, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/documentation-about-using-anonymous-and-named-functions-with-pmap/19337 "2019-01-06T23:01:56Z")\
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> [@zsunberg](#):
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> it is simpler to serialize anonymous functions because they only have 1 method

This is not true in general, you can add methods to anonymous functions:

```julia
julia> f = (x) -> x^2
#16 (generic function with 1 method)

julia> (::typeof(f))(x::Int) = 10x

julia> f
#16 (generic function with 2 methods) # Note that f now has 2 methods

julia> f(2.)
4.0

julia> f(2)
20

```

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