# Help understanding an anonymous function

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-understanding-an-anonymous-function/47591
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** function
**Created:** [October 1, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-understanding-an-anonymous-function/47591 "2020-10-01T10:29:02Z")
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### Author: ![yuyichao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yuyichao/32/20_2.png) [@yuyichao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yuyichao)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-understanding-an-anonymous-function/47591/2 "2020-10-01T12:29:54Z")

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The code exactly as you typed should not work (extra space) and what you are seeing is most likely not an anonymous function. I don’t know where you get that code from but you are most likely seeing [(d::Int)(x::Int) = d + x?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/d-int-x-int-d-x/47321)

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