diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/ReactiveScopes/CodegenReactiveFunction.ts b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/ReactiveScopes/CodegenReactiveFunction.ts
index 77b9414706..1f75d32067 100644
--- a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/ReactiveScopes/CodegenReactiveFunction.ts
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/ReactiveScopes/CodegenReactiveFunction.ts
@@ -2060,11 +2060,14 @@ function codegenPlace(cx: Context, place: Place): t.Expression | t.JSXText {
 }
 
 function convertIdentifier(identifier: Identifier): t.Identifier {
-  CompilerError.invariant(identifier.name !== null, {
-    reason: `Expected temporaries to be promoted to named identifiers in an earlier pass`,
-    loc: GeneratedSource,
-    description: `identifier ${identifier.id} is unnamed`,
-    suggestions: null,
-  });
+  CompilerError.invariant(
+    identifier.name !== null && identifier.name.kind === "named",
+    {
+      reason: `Expected temporaries to be promoted to named identifiers in an earlier pass`,
+      loc: GeneratedSource,
+      description: `identifier ${identifier.id} is unnamed`,
+      suggestions: null,
+    }
+  );
   return t.identifier(identifier.name.value);
 }
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/error.todo-try-catch-within-function-expression.expect.md b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/error.todo-try-catch-within-function-expression.expect.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b9e0184b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/error.todo-try-catch-within-function-expression.expect.md
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+
+## Input
+
+```javascript
+function Component(props) {
+  const callback = () => {
+    try {
+      return [];
+    } catch (e) {
+      return;
+    }
+  };
+  return callback();
+}
+
+```
+
+
+## Error
+
+```
+[ReactForget] Invariant: Expected temporaries to be promoted to named identifiers in an earlier pass. identifier 16 is unnamed
+```
+          
+      
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/error.todo-try-catch-within-function-expression.js b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/error.todo-try-catch-within-function-expression.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..69c394c826
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-forget/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/error.todo-try-catch-within-function-expression.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+function Component(props) {
+  const callback = () => {
+    try {
+      return [];
+    } catch (e) {
+      return;
+    }
+  };
+  return callback();
+}