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So what I had to do was:
```
func MyFunction() : String {
   var myReturnVariable : String //Can't seem to get this to be a val
   callTo3rdPartyFunction {
     //Do things
     myReturnVariable = "hello!"
   }
   return myReturnVariable
}
```

ziad: are you returning the results of the function? this has a smell of side effects

you could maybe do 

```

return callTo3rd {
 // do stuff
}.let {
 // transform stuff to myReturn
}
```

Hi <@U280UQQNA> ! Thanks for the input. If it's a smell then I'd love to avoid it.

What I'm doing is calling a 3rd party database library that runs a transaction for me. When running the transaction, I'm going to insert a row into a table, and I want to do something with the returned id. For example, return a message that says: ```"Created item with ID " + X``` where X is the result of what happened in that closure.

does the 3rd party library return that id?

If it did, I guess I could have just done something like:
```val x = 3rdPartyFunc { //stuff }```

i can’t think of a way to do it.. really seems like a limitation of the underlying library. if you use it a lot you can wrap it in a function that does the var + assign &amp; returns the id, so in your everyday code you don’t have to worry about it

Hmm, interesting idea. So I'll still use vals in my day to day code, but a var in my wrapper function, right?

that’s what i’d do if i had to do it more than 1x

this also might be a good use of extension functions

you can create your own version of the transaction functon and just call it as if it were part of the library (almost)

I'll go check out extension functions now, sounds like a good use-case.