14.7. Labeled Statements
Statements may have label prefixes.
LabeledStatement: Identifier : StatementLabeledStatementNoShortIf: Identifier : StatementNoShortIf
The Identifier is declared to be the label of the immediately contained Statement.
Unlike C and C++, the Java programming language has no goto statement; identifier statement labels are used with break (§14.15) or continue (§14.16) statements appearing anywhere within the labeled statement.
The scope of a label of a labeled statement is the immediately contained Statement. It is a compile-time error if the name of a label of a labeled statement (§14.7) is used within the scope of the label as a label of another labeled statement.
There is no restriction against using the same identifier ...
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