Just Java™ 2, Fifth Edition

Chapter 7. Java Statements

• “Organizing” Statements

• Expression STATEMENTS

• Selection Statements

• Iteration Statements

• Transfer of Control Statements

• Exceptions

• The Assert Statement

• Further Reading

• Exercises

• Some Light Relief—Miniscribe: The Hard Luck Hard Disk

Statements are the way we get things done in a program. Statements live in methods and in blocks. Any statement may be prefixed by a label, as shown here:

months: for(int m = 1; m <= 12; m++) { ... 

The general syntax for a statement is this:

optIdentifier: statement 

Java doesn’t have a goto statement. If a label appears, it is either just empty documentation (rare—use a comment instead), or it is used ...