Re: Why does Eclipse find error in simple "public static void main( String[] args) { } instruction?

From:

Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:56:07 -0700 (PDT)

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Patricia Shanahan wrote:

Roedy Green wrote:

Gianni Galore wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

package aaa.bbb;

public static void main( String[] args) {
System.out.println("hello");
}

It is best to post everything. The problem most often is in the stuff
you don't post, in this case your class definition.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/helloworld.html

I think he did post the whole thing, and there is no class declaration.

The compiler seems to be totally confused, which would be consistent
with that. It would not even be considering a method declaration. It
looks as though its last try was to parse it as an annotation, which can
appear before the first class declaration.

Confusingly, at least via Google Groups here, these last two posts appeared in a thread entitled "Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7". Is this just on my end?

The original post that described a bug due to a missing class declaration was answered in its own thread pretty well already.

--
Lew