Question: can one declare local variables with an inner block inside a proc?

Ok, I am not able to find about this after 30 minutes search (my limit of giving up :).

One can ofcourse make a local variables in a proc. But sometimes I need to make a temporary variable within the proc, say inside an if...fi to use for some local temporary computation. There is no need for this temporary variable to be declared at the whole proc() scope, since it is used only inside some limited scope.  I am not able to find how to do this in Maple. Here is some silly example

f:=proc()
     local x;
     x:=9;
     if x<10 then
        local z;
        z:=20;
        x:=z;
        ....
     fi;
     x;
     end proc;

the above is illegal. I can do this:

f:=proc()
     local x;
     x:=9;
     if x<10 then
        proc()
        z:=20;
        x:=z;
          ....
        end proc;    
     fi;
     x;
     end proc;
which compiles , but does not do what is expected. The body of the `if` statement is not called. I added a print statments there and they are not being called. (I guess since it is non-named proc(), it is not called, I thought it will fall through....

I looked for some kind of BLOCK , or DECLARE construct or such in Maple but can't find it.

is it possible to introduce a temporary local scope within a proc()? What would be the syntax? That would be really useful. Ada has this feature.