Can't breakpoint the last statement of a code block in Eclipse

Question

if (true) {
    String a = \"foo\";
    String b = \"bar\";
}

If I set a breakpoint at String a = \"foo\"; eclipse will stop, and I ca

Answer 1

I'm honestly not sure what's going on in your Eclipse installation. I'm working in Java and just tried everything I can think of. I checked a static method for breakpoint on the last line that is not a } and it works just fine. I checked the same for a non-static method.

It breaks down this way: you can't breakpoint on a curly brace end, but it will default to whatever is under the curly brace, line-wise. So if you have a nested function:

public int DoesStuff(int x, int y) {
    if(x > y) {
        DoThing;
    }
    else {
        DoOtherThing;
    }
}

Then the last two braces cannot be break-pointed, but DoThing and DoOtherThing can. Make sense?