Wrong answer in the JavaRanch Rule Round-up Game

[Sergey Zakusov]

Question #135 should be corrected.

Answer can be "false" because there is no information about break statement.
So the default statement will execute even a case value matches switch() argument, for example:

int i = 33;
switch (i) {
    case 33: System.out.println("ok");
    default: System.out.println("default!");
}

[Pramod P Deore]

From where you get this question. This is not the right forum to post it. What is the complete question? Because if no match found then also default case will be executed.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Hi,

Welcome to JavaRanch, and thanks for the feedback!

I believe the answer is correct as it stands. It says that the default clause will execute if no case matches, and that's absolutely true. It's possible that the default will execute if a case matches, also -- but that doesn't make the original statement false. If the question had said "True or false: the default clause will only execute if no case matches", then I would agree with you, but it does not say that.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Pramod P Deore wrote:This is not the right forum to post it.

As he says in the subject line, it's from the JavaRanch Rules Roundup Game, and this is absolutely the right place to post this.

[Sergey Zakusov]

Pramod P Deore wrote:From where you get this question.

http://www.javaranch.com/game/game2.jsp

Pramod P Deore wrote:This is not the right forum to post it.

Paul Wheaton said me to post it here.

Pramod P Deore wrote:What is the complete question? Because if no match found then also default case will be executed.

It's not a question. It's just a proposal.

[Sergey Zakusov]

Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:If the question had said "True or false: the default clause will only execute if no case matches", then I would agree with you, but it does not say that.

Ok. You are right.

[Pramod P Deore]

Hi, Sergey , Actually I don't know about the JavaRanch Rule Round-up Game therefore I had asked that questions. but now I got my mistake. Thanks I will also check JavaRanch Rule Round-up Game.

[fred rosenberger]

Sergey Zakusov wrote:Ok. You are right.

EFH usually is.