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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: Does this make sense?
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 15:15:33 -0000 (UTC)
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Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 9:03:28 AM UTC-4, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> > } finally {
>> >   try {
>> >    fos.close();
>>      Aside: I think you need a null-test here.
> Is a null even possible?  It would have to crash in the 'new'.

Exactly! It's the purpose of the "finally" block to be run *also*
in case of an exception in the "try"-block.