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

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On 4/22/2011 3:38 PM, markspace wrote:
> On 4/22/2011 2:30 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>
>>
>> There is no problem using exceptions inside main, as long as you catch
>> them, so that they don't get thrown from main.
>
> During development, throwing exceptions from main is fine because it
> gives the developer the most about of useful information.

Yes, I was over-simplifying a bit.

Patricia

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