Thread question 9 in K&B P765

[Jiang Bian]

public class ThreadTest {
	public static synchronized void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
		Thread t = new Thread();
		t.start();
		System.out.println("X");
		t.wait(10000);
		System.out.println("Y");
	}
}

The answer is "An exception is thrown at runtime", which I totally understand. But my question is why "A. It prints X and exits." not correctly.
Although it exits with an exception, but it will print X and exits.

Thanks in advance!

Jiang

[nisha chidella]

the main thread prints X, after that, line 6 throws an exception because wait() is not being called within a synchronized context.

[Ruben Soto]

I think that by "exits" they mean "exits normally" and not "throws an exception."

[Jiang Bian]

Well, the only thing I can hope is that the real questions won't be ambiguous.
Thanks!