java返回for循环,返回for循环或外部循环

Today someone attended me to bad use of the return keyword in Java. I had written a simple for loop to validate something is in an array. Supposing array is an array of length n this was my code:

for(int i=0; i

if(array[i]==valueToFind) return true;

}

return false;

Now someone told me that this is not very good programming because I use the return statement inside a loop and this would cause garbage collection to malfunction. Therefore better code would be:

int i = 0;

while(i

return i != array.length;

The problem is that I can't come up with a proper explenation of why the first for loop isn't a good practice. Can somebody give me an expenation?

解决方案Now someone told me that this is not very good programming because I use the return statement inside a loop and this would cause garbage collection to malfunction.

That's incorrect, and suggests you should treat other advice from that person with a degree of skepticism.

The mantra of "only have one return statement" (or more generally, only one exit point) is important in languages where you have to manage all resources yourself - that way you can make sure you put all your cleanup code in one place.

It's much less useful in Java: as soon as you know that you should return (and what the return value should be), just return. That way it's simpler to read - you don't have to take in any of the rest of the method to work out what else is going to happen (other than finally blocks).