This methods takes a FnMut that returns Try, but I don't find a good use case other than using Result. The doc also mentions successful result, so Result seems to be the best option here.
Why does it take Try? Is there a reason for it?
At the moment, Try mainly supports Result, Option, and ControlFlow.
Regarding use-cases with Option, the linked documentation itself features multiple examples, e. g. with checked_add. If it wasn't supported, you would need to convert to something like Result<T, ()> and then back to Option<T>, which would be more tedious to write.
The last type, the ControlFlow enum, is similar to Result but it doesn't carry any implication about the short-circuiting case to have anything to do with actual "errors".
In the long run, eventually Try would become user-implementable, so there can be even more types supported.
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