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Posted by luis cantu
luis cantu
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Changing the parentheses value

In the expression System.exit (0); what happen if I change the 0 value for another different? and what could be an example of that cases?

Thanks

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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! The System.exit(0) is used to tell the Java Virtual Machine to exit normally. By convention 0 is used here. Here's a quote from the Java documentation:

The argument serves as a status code; by convention, a nonzero status code indicates abnormal termination.

You may view further documentation here

To my knowledge, you'd only want to use a non-zero value when indicating a non-normal termination of the JVM.

Hope this helps! :sparkles: