# Python \_\_call\_\_ equivalent in Julia

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/python-call-equivalent-in-julia/36905
**Category:** New to Julia
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**Created:** [April 2, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/python-call-equivalent-in-julia/36905 "2020-04-02T14:43:35Z")
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#### Post date: [April 3, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/python-call-equivalent-in-julia/36905/5 "2020-04-03T01:35:44Z")

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I disagree that this is less OO than what @mauro3 showed (regardless of what the term OO actually means). The closure you show in your code is implemented as a `struct` storing `a`. The only real difference between the two examples is that yours is one line shorter but produces intermediate outputs which might be less legible and shouldn’t be dispatched on.

```julia
julia> dump(mul)
#13 (function of type var"#13#14"{Int64})
  a: Int64 2

```

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edited to make the tone seem less aggressive (did not mean to be aggressive)

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