Doubt on return type.

[Jeffrey Tian]

Below is a question from Enthuware(Q10 of Test 3)


What will the following class print ?

class Test
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      int[][] a = { { 00, 01 }, { 10, 11 } };
      int i = 99;
      try {
         a[val()][i = 1]++;
      } catch (Exception e) {
         System.out.println( i+", "+a[1][1]);
      }
   }
   static int val() throws Exception {  
     throw new Exception("unimplemented");  
   }
}

It prints out 99, 11.

The method on Line 13 has a return type as int. However, there's no return statement in the method body. Why? Is it because the first statement is throw and statements after throw won't be reachable?

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/expressions.html#15.7.4