[Sybex][possible errata] OCP 11 Programmer I Study Guide, Ch. 4, p. 145, The continue Statement

[Tomasz Kasprzyk]

Hi,

in the explanation for the CleaningSchedule example (the 6th line in the original version has the label):

public class CleaningSchedule {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		CLEANING: for (char stables = 'a'; stables <= 'd'; stables++) {
			for (int leopard = 1; leopard < 4; leopard++) {
				if (stables == 'b' || leopard == 2) {
					continue; // continue CLEANING;
				}
				System.out.println("Cleaning: " + stables + ", " + leopard);
			}
		}
	}
}

it is written:

Now, imagine we removed the CLEANING label in the continue sstatement (...)

This corresponds to the zookeeper skipping all leopards except those labeled 2 or in stable b.

I think that, instead of skipping, the zookeper is in fact cleaning the leopards mentioned above

This corresponds to the zookeeper skipping cleaning all leopards except those labeled 2 or in stable b.

What corresponds with the output generated by the code above.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Please confirm that is the book by Boyarsky and Selikoff.
Please look here for the errata; it was an easy task because you provided the page number (thank you). I think you are correct and you have found a “new” error. Please wait; Jeanne checks this forum regularly.

[Tomasz Kasprzyk]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Please confirm that is the book by Boyarsky and Selikoff.

Confirmed. Thank you

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Good catch. The code was right, the story was not. We do want our leopards to be clean!

Added to errata

[Campbell Ritchie]

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:. . . . We do want our leopards to be clean! . . . .

Even spotlessly clean!

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

No!!! You can't remove their spots! (hee hee)

[Paul Clapham]

It's a good thing we have people spotting those leopards mistakes.

[Campbell Ritchie]

But Jeanne has been put on the spot.