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Comment by twir | Hacker News Reader

Wow, never knew one could do that.

You can't do that. It would require a language change, to make try/catch blocks expressions.

Heh, I didn't think so. ;)

You can sort of do this in Groovy.

  def val = {try { 1 } catch(ex) { 2 }}.call()
  assert(1 == val)