Re: [Caml-list] exception Failure and failwith

[Julien Signoles <Julien.Signoles@lri.fr>]

> It's all about the failwith function of pervasives (that simply raises
> an exception Failure of string).
> Normally, that exception can be cought by means of a try...with using as
> clause something like
> | Failure s -> .....
>
> But what if I want to catch the Failure exception? :-/
> It seems that no module defines it, so I did not find any way to
> identify the exception.

You're right: no module defines Failure. But you can make an alias for the
primitive Failure and use it:

==========
exception Prim_Failure = Failure
exception Failure
let f () = failwith ""
let () =
  try f (); assert false
  with Prim_Failure _ -> print_endline "primitive failure"
     | Failure        -> print_endline "redefined failure"
==========

Hope this helps,
Julien Signoles
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