Java control statements

[Achin Gupta]

Are the control statements like if(),while() etc are methods in java?

[John Jai]

They cannot return a value. They cannot have access modifier. They cannot be static. They cannot be invoked using a Class name or object. They cannot be declared abstract. Really is that your question and welcome to the ranch

[Paul Clapham]

And beyond that... Java doesn't have functions, so it's meaningless to ask questions about whether something is or isn't a "function" in the context of Java.

[Matthew Brown]

They're not really like functions at all, other than having brackets after them - which is just an accident of syntax. How would you write a function (or method) to do what while does? That is, continually execute the block of code following it until a condition is true.

If you want to see a language where all the control structures are methods, though, have a look at Smalltalk (there are probably others). There, for example, a for loop is a method of the Integer class, which takes a block of code as an argument and executes it n times, where n is the receiver.