if statements with conditions that are always false have the effect of making blocks of code non-functional. if
statements with conditions that are always true are completely redundant, and make the code less readable.
There are three possible causes for the presence of such code:
In any of these cases, unconditional if statements should be removed.
if (true) {
doSomething();
}
...
if (false) {
doSomethingElse();
}
doSomething(); ...