let stuff = ()=>{ try {
   return f();
} catch(e){ return f; } }();
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2015-07-13 10:14 GMT+02:00 Andreas Rossberg <rossberg at google.com>:
> Do-expressions will solve this:
>
>  let stuff = do { try {
>    f()
>  } catch (e) { 0 } }
>
> The inflation of braces is somewhat ugly there, and we might want to allow
> dropping some of them.
>
> /Andreas
>
>
> On 12 July 2015 at 10:26, Gary Guo <nbdd0121 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is not possible as it contracts with existing semantics. Wrap it with
>> a function instead.
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: jbucaran at me.com
>> Subject: Allow `try…catch` blocks to return a value.
>> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:53:52 +0900
>> To: es-discuss at mozilla.org
>>
>>
>> Allow `try…catch` blocks to return a value.
>>
>> Sometimes I wrap a `try…catch` in a function and return a value based in
>> whether there was an error or not.
>>
>> It would be useful if you could use `return` inside a `try…catch` block to
>> accomplish the same.
>>
>>
>> ```js
>>  let stuff = try {
>>    return ...
>>  } catch (e) { return … ? … : ... }
>> ```
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```js
let stuff = ()=>{ try {
   return f();
} catch(e){ return f; } }();
```

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