Question

Is it possible to somehow ignore this error? I find it much easier to just put return in front of the code I don’t want to run than to comment it (when the comments overlap and behave badly)…

Answer 1

No. It’s a compile time error. So you must get rid of it before running your class.

What I usually do is put a fake if statement in front of it. Something like:

if(true)
    return;
// unwanted code follows. no errors.
i++;
j++;

With this code, you will not get a Unreachable statement error. And you will get what you want.