do you have an example of how you did it in `Try`? Try and Either have the same APIs save for the co...

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[pakoito]

do you have an example of how you did it in Try? Try and Either have the same APIs save for the constructor, which is what Either.catch was added for

[Jörg Winter]

initially I had Try { }
So using the suspend-constructor Either.catch is actually the 'official' replacement I guess ?

[Jörg Winter]

and about the only one ?

[Jörg Winter]

btw, it is working perfectly fine, I was just wondering about other alternatives...

[pakoito]

yes, the only one. You can write the old, non-suspend version for your codebase

[pakoito]

we just don’t want to encourage it from the library

[pakoito]

because it’s side-effecty

[pakoito]

fun catchE(f: () -> A): Either<Throwable, A> =
 try { f().right() } catch (t: Throwable) { t.left() }

[Jörg Winter]

ok, and then there is the infamuous runCatching with Result from stdlib :)

[pakoito]

don’t hurt me like this hahaha