Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: Some same exceptions used in a given file Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:23:15 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <87r58s28w3.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="KiwfXDyOjqGhZBXcfNnZBg"; logging-data="12296"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+8bKw95mo9Jxj34Ad00JV1" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:f9O1jELjm+bG9ce/UzlXsqUR0Fo= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:615 On 4/23/2011 3:28 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: > Eric Sosman writes: >> On 4/23/2011 1:08 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>> catch (IOException cantOpenFile) >>> { >>> System.err.println("Can't open " + inputFilename + "."); >>> System.exit(1); >>> } >> Could you give an example of what you're trying to do? (The >> above isn't sufficiently informative.) > > I guess, > > catch (IOException cantOpenFile) > { MyUtils.exit("Can't open " + inputFilename + "."); } > > . Maybe. I'm still not sure, because if he has N occurrences of `catch (IOException...)' he must also have N `try' blocks. It's not the insides of the `catch' that perplex me; it's how he intends to meld those N `try' blocks together. (Also why, but that's another issue.) -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid