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Reputation: 3

I don't know how to make this if statement work

this is the question on the homework: "If the person works, in hours per week, less than or equal to the number of hours in a normal work week, then the income is simply the payrate times hoursWorkedPerWeek."

this is the code i have, it says it's an unreachable statement:

public double getGrossIncome() {
    double income = 0;

    return income;

    if(hoursWorkedPerWeek <= NORMAL_WORK_WEEK){
        income = payRate * hoursWorkedPerWeek;
    }

}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (1)

vijaydeep
vijaydeep

Reputation: 385

The statements which are written after the return statement are never executed. Hence all these statements are termed unreachable statements. We can have multiple return statements inside a method based on certain conditions.

For eg: In this method we have 2 return statements based on certain criteria.

  public String process(int x){
    if (x<18){
      return "Not eligible";
      //Not reachable area
    }
    else{
      return "eligible";
      //Not reachable area
    }
  }

Upvotes: 1

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