about statement unreachable

public class ZZY {
static boolean condition = true;
public static void main ( String [ ] args) {
int i = 0 ;
if (false){ i++;}
while (condition) {
i++ ;
if (i>4) break ;
}
System.out.println(i) ;
}
}




When i change while (condition) to while(false) .... i get a compile time error of statement unreachable .... however even i++ is unreachable in if (false){ i++;} .. but it does not give a complite time error.

So can anyone tell me the situations in which we wouid get a compile time error of statement unreachable .

Thanks

If you set condition = false and pass condition to while() loop then it will compile fine.

hi
can you tell me the differnce between while(false) and while (condition ) .. where condition has been set to false ??

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