unreachable statment??

[leza]

I am trying to understand why "continue" keyword is used for, therefore I
compiled this code but I got this error message.. why
=============== =====
C:\Program Files\JCreator LE\MyProjects\m eme\test.java:2 4: unreachable
statement
System.out.prin tln(t);
^
1 error
=============== ======
public class test{
public static void main(String arg[])
{
for (int t=0;t<5;t++)
{
System.out.prin tln(t);
continue;
System.out.prin tln(t); // the problem with this statement (this
unrechable) why

}
}
}

[SteveE]

> for (int t=0;t<5;t++)

{
System.out.prin tln(t);
continue;
System.out.prin tln(t); // the problem with this statement (this
unrechable) why

}

'continue' means skip the rest of the code in the loop and go to the
next iteration, hence the second println(t) always gets skipped and is
deamed 'unreacheable'. If you change 'continue;' to 'if (true)
continue;' however, it will work (that is, you won't get an error).

SteveE

[leza]

is skipping a part of code is ERROR??
why the error message.. what is the use of continue??
so much confusing!!!!!

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for (int t=0;t<5;t++)
{
System.out.prin tln(t);
continue;
System.out.prin tln(t); // the problem with this statement (this
unrechable) why

}

'continue' means skip the rest of the code in the loop and go to the
next iteration, hence the second println(t) always gets skipped and is
deamed 'unreacheable'. If you change 'continue;' to 'if (true)
continue;' however, it will work (that is, you won't get an error).

SteveE

[SteveE]

leza wrote:

is skipping a part of code is ERROR??
why the error message.. what is the use of continue??
so much confusing!!!!!

It's a 'clever' feature of the compiler. If it can determine for sure
that a piece of code can never be executed, it will flag it up as such.
You can fix the code if it's a bug, or remove it if it's redundant. It
can be quite handy in complicated code with lots of throws or try/catch
blocks, etc.
Think of continue as a 'goto' end of loop (or a label for nested loops).

Explanation and examples are here:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor....html#continue

SteveE