Catching non-fatal exceptions?

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Is there a way to catch only non-fatal exceptions? There are some exceptions that should not be caught in normal userland code, eg out of memory, stack overflow. In Scala we can do:

try something() catch
  case NonFatal(ex) => ...

Which matches against only exceptions outside this set of ‘fatal’ exceptions. Is there something similar in OCaml? I suspect no but just wanted to double-check.

Also slightly unrelated question but, I could have sworn that the Stdlib had gained a new Exn module for exception-related functionality, but now I can’t find it :thinking:

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Not sure about the main question, but Jane Street Base has an Exn module. Printexc in the standard library has functions related to exceptions that go beyond printing. Not sure what else you could be thinking of.

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try something () with
| e when is_fatal e -> reraise e
| e -> …
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I assume is_fatal is trivially defined and thus left as an exercise for the reader :wink:

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Are you maybe looking for Fun.protect or for Printexc.*?

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In Lwt there’s a global switch so that is_fatal becomes function Out_of_memory | Stack_overflow -> true | _ -> false.

See Should out-of-memory ever be caught in libraries/framework?

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Thanks. Apparently Invalid_argument is not supposed to be caught either: OCaml library : Stdlib

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