static try?

[Robert Jacques]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:21:58 -0400, Mehrdad <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've written this piece of code a fair number of times:
>
>       static if (is(typeof(foo()))) { foo(); }
>       else { bar(); }
>
> When the expression inside the condition (i.e. the call to foo()) gets
> complicated, you get lots of code duplication and things become harder
> to read.
>
> So I'm thinking, why not just introduce a 'static try'?
>
> Something like:
>
>      static try
>      {
>          foo();
>      }
>      catch  // (string ex)  // perhaps let them know what the error is?
>      {
>          bar();
>      }
>
> It's a clean and immensely readable improvement IMO, and it doesn't
> introduce any new keywords or any breaking changes to anything.
>
> How's the idea?
>

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