Is there a concise way to check the next statement...

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[Animesh Sahu]

Is there a concise way to check the next statement, sort of:

return when {
    cond1 -> try { something() } catch (e: Exception) { TODO() /* Goto cond2 */ }
    cond2 -> TODO()
    else -> throw RuntimeException("Whatever reason")
}

[Marc Knaup]

I’d put it in a function and call recursively 🤔

[Animesh Sahu]

So that checks cond1 again blob thinking upside down

[Marc Knaup]

Ah, mixed it up with condX being objects 😅

Anyway, there is no goto or fall-through in Kotlin.

[Marc Knaup]

You could put the code for cond2 branch in a local function and simply call it:
onCond2()

[ephemient]

at some point JB was considering using `continue`/`break` keywords inside when - and the keywords were reserved for future use and you couldn't use them - but they've abandoned that

[Rob Elliot]

I am so glad they chose not to do that. break and continue, and switch fall through, were generally a good indication that someone was writing code that would be hard to maintain and reason about.