On: All variables in Java must be final

[nradov]

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

[eldenbishop → nradov]

You can sort of do this in Groovy.

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

[twir → nradov]

Heh, I didn't think so. ;)