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From: Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Guarding arithmetic
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, 23 August 2012 10:16:08 UTC+1, Chris Angelico  wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Mark Carter <> wrote:
> > Suppose I want to define a function "safe", which returns the argument passed if there is no error, and 42 if there is one. 

> only possible with floating point, not integer.
> 
> try:
>     print 1/0
> except ZeroDivisionError:
>     print 42

OK, so it looks like a solution doesn't exist to the problem as specified. I guess it's something that only a language with macros could accommodate.