Java: Making reference null after closing stream

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Published on 2010-03-22T19:50:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 19:51 UTC
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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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