# Guarded Declarations (const / let … else …)

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**Created:** [December 19, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/guarded-declarations-const-let-else/2479 "2025-12-19T18:22:08Z")\
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Replying to myself since I can’t edit the root post.

I also didn’t find this initially when looking, but it seems someone proposed a similar concept. [Try-catch oneliner - #2 by jridgewell](https://es.discourse.group/t/try-catch-oneliner/107/2) . I think I had this in mind initially when proposing mine, but I wanted to avoid introducing new keywords like `guard`. But I did think about this.

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