Return from Try/Catch block in Kotlin Kotlin newbie here... So I have a method that returns a userDefined object fun doSomethingMagical(param1: String): UserDefinedObject { val result = UserDefinedObject // execute some code try { .... if(some expression){ val temp = //some code result = temp } return result } catch(e : Exception){ null } } the above method gives me 2 error: Variable 'result' must be initialized A 'return' expression required in a function...