# Why does the soft scope warning not appear in a nested loop?

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**Created:** [December 6, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-does-the-soft-scope-warning-not-appear-in-a-nested-loop/72646 "2021-12-06T11:08:31Z")\
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You can always declare a variable as `local` to avoid it picking up any previous definitions:

```julia
function f()
   i = 100
   for j in 1:2
       local i = 0
       i = i + j
   end
   println(i)
end

julia> f()
100

```

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