Try[1] in Scala standard library is also similar in concept. Erik Meijer covers this subject very well in his talks[2].

  [1]The Try type represents a computation that may either result in an exception, or return a successfully computed value. http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/nightly/docs/library/index.html#scala.util.Try
  [2]http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Keynote-Duality