# Too new for this world problem when called from a function

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/too-new-for-this-world-problem-when-called-from-a-function/70820>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [November 2, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/too-new-for-this-world-problem-when-called-from-a-function/70820 "2021-11-02T17:43:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![roflmaostc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/roflmaostc/32/30123_2.png) [@roflmaostc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/roflmaostc)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/too-new-for-this-world-problem-when-called-from-a-function/70820/2 "2021-11-02T17:47:51Z")

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What you see is called [world age problem](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/world-age-problem/27759) which also hit me before.

The question is: Why do you need `Meta.parse`?  
I mean, you can define your function like always and just pass it as a variable?

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