do {
try
} catch {
// This block probably never gets called.
}

"BOYYYYY, WAS I WRONG"

(Raises hand enthusiastically) "Oh! Oh! Teacher! Teacher!!! Pick Me! Pick me! I KNOW THIS ONE!!!!"

OkayIfEmptyObject mostThings;

try{

mostThings = trivialWhatever.getAnOkayIfEmpytObject(fromWherever);

}

catch(NullPointerException npe){

mostThings = new OkayIfEmptyObject();

}

finally{

timeWastedDueToBoilerplateBullshit++;

willToContinueThisProject--;

}

@MobiusDerp catching NPE is stupid.