Thread: Can anybody explain this code in details

Hello,
Can anybody explain each lines of this code in details? I understand most of it, but I have a couple of problems with some of the logic and coding.

class Josephus
{
    static class Node
      { int val; Node next;
        Node(int v) { val = v; }
      }
    public static void main(String[] args)
      { int N = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
        int M = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
        Node t = new Node(1);
        Node x = t;
        for (int i = 2; i <= N; i++)
          x = (x.next = new Node(i));
        x.next = t;
        while (x != x.next)
          {
            for (int i = 1; i < M; i++) x = x.next;
            x.next = x.next.next;
          }
        Out.println("Survivor is " + x.val);
      }
  }

So, what are the problems? And what is the code supposed to do?

And does the code compile? Hint: no, it doesn't. The compiler grumbles about Out. So, what is that all about?

Sorry about all the questions, but it strikes me that the road to understanding isn't so much sign posted as punctuated by questioning billboards. And Josephus rocks! Although what a 0-th century historian and general was thinking about posing questions of number theory, baffles me.[COLOR="Silver"]

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