Re: Good practice or not to close the file before System.exit(1)?

Date	2011-04-22 14:30 -0700
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: Good practice or not to close the file before System.exit(1)?
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On 4/22/2011 2:09 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
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> Another question comes to my mind:
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> 3) Let us consider that your main deals with I/O. Then, it is common
> to use exceptions, e.g. IOException (for dealing with files for
> example) or NumberFormatException (for parseInt for example). However,
> it is disadviced to use exceptions in the main. As a result, I can
> reasonably conclude that dealing with I/O should go into (a) seperate
> classe[s], but is it really a good idea when you don't need to deal
> with that much input from the user?

There is no problem using exceptions inside main, as long as you catch
them, so that they don't get thrown from main.

Patricia

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  Re: Good practice or not to close the file before System.exit(1)? rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2011-04-22 00:11 +0100
    Re: Good practice or not to close the file before System.exit(1)? rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2011-04-22 12:39 +0100
      Re: Good practice or not to close the file before System.exit(1)? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-22 05:09 -0700
        Re: Good practice or not to close the file before System.exit(1)? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-22 09:39 -0400
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