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-10

Do I get a prize?

The finally statement is ALWAYS executed even if there isn't an
exception.  As a matter of fact you can have a try-finally block WITHOUT
a catch block - and it is quite useful.  The idea for finally is to do
any housekeeping exception or no exception.

HTH.

--Nikolaos

Edoardo Comar wrote:

> Without minding  about bad programming style,
> will this program output 1010 or -10 on (*) ?
>
> package edo.syntaxTest;
>
> public class FinallyTest
> {
>
>   public static void main(String[] args)
>   {
>     FinallyTest finallyTest = new FinallyTest();
>
>     System.out.println(finallyTest.test(0));
>     System.out.println(finallyTest.test(10)); // (*)
>   }
>
>   public int test(int param)
>   {
>     int _result = 1000;
>     try
>     {
>       if(param <= 0)
>         throw new IllegalArgumentException("param invalid");
>
>       return _result += param;
>     }
>     catch(Exception exc)
>     {
>        System.out.println("catch!");
>        _result  = -20;
>     }
>     finally
>     {
>        System.out.println("finally!");
>        _result  = -10;
>     }
>     return _result;
>   }
> }