Description Tom Hofmann 2004-03-16 04:40:48 EST

I20040310

I often want to extract a loop body to its own method. If I have "continue"
statements in the loop body, the refactoring will not be allowed. Would
converting them to "return" statements be semantically preserving (if the entire
loop body is extracted, anyway)?

Exp:

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for (int i= 0; i < 10; i++) {
    if (condition1)
        continue;
    if (condition2)
        continue;

    doStuff();
}
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Extracting the loop body would produce:

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for (int i= 0; i < 10; i++) {
    loopBody();
}

// ...

private void loopBody() {
    if (condition1)
        return;
    if (condition2)
        return;

    doStuff();
}

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