Re: [Caml-list] Exceptions and at_exit

[William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:30:23AM -0700, David Fox wrote:
> My confusion about re-raising exceptions was caused by the fact that
> you get different behavior if you say something like
> 
>   try ... with
>     Failure msg -> <do some stuff>; raise (Failure msg)
> 
> vs something like
> 
>   try ... with
>     exn ->
>        begin match exn with Failure msg -> <do some stuff> end;
>        raise exn
> 
> In the second case, you are re-raising the exception, in the first
> you are raising a new exception and your original traceback is lost.

What if you did something like:

    try ... with
        Failure msg as exn -> <do some stuff>; raise exn

Would that leave the original traceback intact?

William
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