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		nollidge on March 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everything about Java 8 Since Java doesn't have pass-by-ref, this would probably be just as awkward as try-catch.

suppressingfire on March 29, 2013 [–]

Guava's Hints.tryParse is about as good as it can get in Java... Maybe it could return an Optional instead of a nullable boxed type, but the calling code wouldn't be much different.

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