为什么 BST 的 findNode 方法中的这一行被标记为 "dead code"?

Why is this line in findNode method of BST being marked "dead code"?

我正试图在 java 中实现一个 findNode 方法作为二叉搜索树的一部分。

public Node findNode(int findkey){
    Node tempNode5 = root;  

    while(findkey != tempNode5.key){
        if(tempNode5 != null){ // if the tempNode5 is not null
                               // and the node to be found hasn't been found yet
                               // then we will go to the leftChild or rightChild
                               // depending on the key
            if(findkey < tempNode5.key){
                tempNode5 = tempNode5.leftChild;
            }
            else tempNode5 = tempNode5.rightChild;
        }
        else return null; // this is the line that Eclipse marks "dead code"
                          // if the tempNode5 reaches null, it means the node to be found
                          // was not found in the BST, in which case I want to return null
    }
    return tempNode5; // if the while loop has exited and reached this line it means that 
                      // the node *has* been found, so I want to return it

}

Eclipse 将行 "else return null;" 标记为死代码。我需要处理在树中找不到节点的情况,否则 while 循环将永远 运行,所以我需要类似的东西,当找不到节点时 return null。

感谢任何帮助:)

看看这些行:

while(findkey != tempNode5.key){
        if(tempNode5 != null){

如果 tempNode5 为 null,while 将抛出 NullPointerException,因此不会执行任何后续行。 因此,如果 tempNode5 不为空,控件只会进入 while 循环,从而使 if..else 变得多余。