<identifier> expected error...cant fix ;(

[davo345]

im creating a random player match generator and im experimenting with java for its implementation I am getting this "<identifier> expected" error" and I really cannot figure out how to make it go away!

here is the code. The implemenation of main() is not completed yet so just ignore it for now.

import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.*;

public class wnrandom
{
    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        Player playr = new Player();




    }



    public class Player
    {
        private String name;

        public void SetName(String pName)
        {
            name = pName;
        }

        public String GetName()
        {
            return name;
        }
    }

public class Match
    {
        private ArrayList<Player> match = new ArrayList<Player>();

        public void SetMatch(Player p1, Player p2)
        {
            match.add(p1);
            match.add(p2);
        }

        public void PrintMatch()
        {
            System.out.println( (match.get(0)).GetName() + " vs " +
                                (match.get(1)).GetName() );
        }

    }

}

the error is:

linux1[10]% javac wnrandom.java
wnrandom.java:39: <identifier> expected
private ArrayList<Player> match = new ArrayList<Player>();
^
1 error

The ^ is supposed to be where the < is in <Player>

where is it bolded is where the problem lies. i am sure this is a completely noob problem :/.

thanks in advance.

[Phaelax]

I tried to compile it, but I'm using 1.4 so I had to remove the generics. I receive a different error, "non-static variable this cannot be referenced from a static context". It points at "playr" in the main method. I have no idea why, the main method should be able to instantiate the inner class. And I see no place where its using "this". This one has me stumped.


Ah, nevermind. It just hit me. (been a long night) Since Player is an inner class, it doesn't technically exist until wnrandom is instantiated.

wnrandom w = new wnrandom();
Player playr = w.new Player();

Change that and see if the other error doesn't go away.

[davo345]

OK, well if I modify my code to make it so there are no inner classes within wnrandom (just move the bottom curly brace up), it gives me the same error.