Java: Making reference null after closing stream
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Is it a good practice to set stream references to null after closing them? Would this release resources in any way?
Example:
BufferedReader input= new BufferedReader(new FileReader("myfile.txt"));
// code
input.close(); input = null;
// possible more code
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