# \`foo = () -\> 3\` vs. \`foo() = 3\`

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/foo-3-vs-foo-3/59710>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** functions\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/foo-3-vs-foo-3/59710 "2021-04-21T04:34:33Z")\
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Well, it turns out that this is more of a bug than feature.

Discourse discussion: [Confused by behaviour of nested functions](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/confused-by-behaviour-of-nested-functions/20576)

And related github issue: [disallow methods of local functions in different blocks · Issue #15602 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/15602)

I think in an issue it is explained better than I can do.

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