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Re: Exception Handling

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Novice wrote:
> And that brings up a minor point that I've wondered about for a while. Is
> there any standard approach to the integers that are used in System.exit
> (). For instance, does a value of 16 typically indicate a severe error
> while a 4 indicates a minor error? (I'm thinking of the old IBM mainframe
> codes in my example.) It seems to me that the Java community may have
> some conventions in this regard that I should follow....

No.

It parallels the use in C of exit values. What's the standard in C?

You can answer your own question yourself from first principles. You should 
get in the habit of doing that. What is the purpose of the return value of the 
program? What uses that value? How does it use that value?

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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  Re: Exception Handling Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-10 18:39 -0800
    Re: Exception Handling Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-11 11:53 -0300
      Re: Exception Handling Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-11 10:51 -0700
        Re: Exception Handling Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-11 16:35 -0300
    Re: Exception Handling Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-11 17:05 +0000
      Re: Exception Handling Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-11 10:53 -0700
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      Re: Exception Handling Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-11 11:07 -0700
        Re: Exception Handling Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-11 17:00 -0300
          Re: Exception Handling Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-11 22:02 +0000
        Re: Exception Handling Arivald <NOSPAMarivald@interia.pl> - 2012-03-11 21:03 +0100
          Re: Exception Handling Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-11 18:31 -0300
        Re: Exception Handling Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-11 21:54 +0000
          Re: Exception Handling Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-03-11 15:26 -0700
            Re: Exception Handling Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-11 23:23 +0000
              Re: Exception Handling Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-11 16:52 -0700
                Re: Exception Handling Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-12 17:16 +0000
                Re: Exception Handling Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-13 08:31 -0700
              Re: Exception Handling Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-03-11 17:51 -0700
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            Re: Exception Handling Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-12 14:49 -0400
          Re: Exception Handling Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-11 20:46 -0300
            Re: Exception Handling Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-12 17:43 +0000
      Re: Exception Handling Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-03-11 11:14 -0700
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            Re: Exception Handling Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-03-12 15:44 +0000
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      Re: Exception Handling Arivald <NOSPAMarivald@interia.pl> - 2012-03-13 00:54 +0100
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