Automatic bookkeeping for exception retries [closed]

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Do any languages that support retry constructs in exception handling track and expose the number of times their catch/rescue (and/or try/begin) blocks have been executed in a particular run?

I find myself counting (and limiting) the number of times a code block is re-executed after an exception often enough that this would be a handy language built-in.

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This is a really interesting question. I did a little research and apparently there is a design pattern called the circuit breaker pattern which was developed to handle such things. I have never heard of the pattern before and can't find much information about it.

There is a library which handles retrying an event for .NET available, might be worth a look. Heres a link to an article about it:

http://www.tobinharris.com/past/2009/1/26/net-circuit-breakers/