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if (false) { x=3; }
does not result in a compile-time error. An optimizing compiler may realize that the statement x=3; will never be executed and may choose to omit the code for that statement from the generated class file, but the statement x=3; is not regarded as "unreachable" in the technical sense specified here.
The rationale for this differing treatment is to allow programmers to define "flag variables" such as:
static final boolean DEBUG = false;
and then write code such as:
if (DEBUG) { x=3; }
The idea is that it should be possible to change the value of DEBUG from false to true or from true to false and then compile the code correctly with no other changes to the program text.
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Originally posted by Francisco A Guimaraes:
So, just to clarify, the code:
gives a compile error because anything in the for block is unreacheable, even though there isn�t anything, right?
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The contained statement is reachable iff the for statement is reachable and the condition expression is not a constant expression whose value is false.
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