From abac9e4c784db9b6f04f12e38c15e72316e4aca6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Angelos Chalaris <chalarangelo@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:44:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add attempt

---
 snippets/attempt.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 tag_database        |  1 +
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 snippets/attempt.md

diff --git a/snippets/attempt.md b/snippets/attempt.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3dae169e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snippets/attempt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+### attempt
+
+Attempts to invoke a function with the provided arguments, returning either the result or the caught error object.
+
+Use a `try... catch` block to return either the result of the function or an appropriate error.
+
+```js
+const attempt = (fn, ...args) => {
+  try {
+    return fn(args);
+  } catch (e) {
+    return e instanceof Error ? e : new Error(e);
+  }
+};
+```
+
+```js
+var elements = attempt(function(selector) {
+  return document.querySelectorAll(selector);
+}, '>_>');
+if (elements instanceof Error) elements = []; // elements = []
+```
diff --git a/tag_database b/tag_database
index 4e52b9a38..a556e5be3 100644
--- a/tag_database
+++ b/tag_database
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ anagrams:string,recursion
 arrayToHtmlList:browser,array
 ary:adapter,function
 atob:node,string,utility
+attempt:function
 average:math,array
 averageBy:math,array,function
 bind:function,object