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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

I have never used System.exit() or sys.exit(). What is a use case where you would call these explicitly?

[-] niq@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For example if you want to set an explicit exit code. Calling python scripts will usually result in an exit code 0 after the script is run. If you want to set a different exit code for example 1 to indicate some error occured you can do that via sys.exit(1).

Same thing applies to other languages of course.

[-] epyon22@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Applications where you aren't using some sort of framework. Usually MVC or other frameworks would handle this or are designed to continuously run.

[-] jsveiga@vlemmy.net 16 points 2 years ago

Perl is funnier, as these are valid ways of exiting with an exception:

readFile() or die;

die unless $a > $b;

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

exit()-ing your step-sys already seems pretty explicit...

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