Yes, that's true, but at the cost of syntactic noise. It's a preference, and one gets used to it I guess, but to me all the try blocks are harder to read than c

Yes, that's true, but at the cost of syntactic noise. It's a preference, and one gets used to it I guess, but to me all the try blocks are harder to read than code where variables have a fixed lifetime, so where you in many cases can avoid the extra indent level.