The Java Language Specification, Third Edition

14.20 The try statement BLOCKS AND STATEMENTS
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synchronized(t) {
synchronized(t) {
System.out.println("made it!");
}
}
}
}
prints:
made it!
This example would deadlock if a single thread were not permitted to lock a lock
more than once.
14.20 The try statement
These are the times that try men’s souls.
. . . and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can,
till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
—
A try statement executes a block. If a value is thrown and the try statement has
one or more catch clauses that can catch it, then control will be transferred to the
first such catch clause. If the try statement has a finally clause, then another
block of code is executed, no matter whether the try block completes normally or
abruptly, and no matter whether a catch clause is first given control.
TryStatement:
try Block Catches
try Block Catchesopt Finally
Catches:
CatchClause
Catches CatchClause
CatchClause:
catch ( FormalParameter ) Block
Finally:
finally Block
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