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Use the [state] tag for questions pertaining to retained information determining the behavior of a program.

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What is better IllegalStateException or silent method execution?

Personally, in a music player, I think a transition from the state Stopped to Stopped by means of the method Stop() is a perfectly valid state transition. It's not very meaningful, but it is valid. …
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