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

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Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Okay. I might switch to exceptions for dealing with user input,
> then. I was dubitative because of so many answers about this... For
> example, at
> <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.help/browse_thread/thread/8f3a236c4ff5a87e/4be4e8faf89e1b52?show_docid=4be4e8faf89e1b52>,
> Mr. Green tells me that exit should be used for application data/user
> errors. Surely exiting with System.exit won't give you any stack dump,
> but my idea was the following: does the user really need a stack dump
> when (s)he knows that he's given bad values to your program?
>
> I think I'll use exceptions, though.

Certainly, use exceptions, but pay attention to Patricia Shanahan's questions. 
  Don't let 'main()' throw an exception!

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Lew
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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
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