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

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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.

If you release a program into the wild, then yes, end-users might not 
want to see stack traces.  Although, some might.  It all depends on your 
user requirements.  Some technically sophisticated users with access to 
your source code might prefer a stack trace.

So I don't think there's any hard and fast rule that says always do or 
always don't.  It depends on what you want the program to do.

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