Exception

[arivu mathi]

public class Test2{
public static void main(String args[]){
System.out.println(method());
}
public static int method(){
try{
throw new Exception();
return 1;
}
catch(Exception e){
return 2;
}
finally{
return 3;
}
}
}

i'm getting unreachable statement as compiler error....
can u explain ....

[K Sujit]

May be because of the return 1; statement, I hope you won't get the compiler error if you remove that.

And then if you run it may return you 2. I don't understand how return 3; is going to behave.

Hope somebody will execute it and tell.

[Dinesh Bang]

Here in the above code :
the statement "return 1;" is unreachable as it comes after the explicit throw exception statement. Thus the statements written after the throw in the try block are all unreachable codes, as they will never be executed.
In this code statements ,
the finally block doesn't work normally as even after the return from catch block, the finally block has to run and return value.
Thus we get o/p 3.

[wise owen]

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