Explaining why using break and continue is a bad practice
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This figure shows an example of using a command in Java called break and continue. I somewhat disagree with the use of these commands in this way. I consider it bad form as does much of the industry. Just because a command is there does not mean you have to use it!
Why this is bad form and provide a snippet of code that shows a better way to code the loops in this example.
I am actually using Jcreator to look at this code. You can either use Jcreator or Netbeans java program to do this one if you choose:
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// Fig. 5.12: BreakTest.java
// break statement exiting a for statement.
Public class BreakTest
{
Public static void main( String args[] )
{
int count; // control variable also used after loop terminates
for ( count = 1; count <= 10; count++ ) // loop 10 times
{
if ( count == 5 ) // if count is 5,
break;
System.out.printf( "%d ", count );
} // end for
System.out.printf( "nBroke out of loop at count = %dn", count );
} // end main
} // end class BreakTest
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This solution explains why using "break" and "continue" is a bad idea. This is illustrated using a small bit of Java code.
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The break and continue statements can be used in useful situations but many times they are abused. The code shown in this example is one of the "abuse" cases. Notice that the for loop will iterate up until the count is equal to 5. At that point the break statement will exit out of the loop. This can be ...
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