Question

I have a class that has a private static variable,

private static counter = 0;

but it gives an error when I compile it:

Car.java:3: <identifier> expected

private static counter = 0;
                      ^

Does anyone know why it does this? I don’t understand what’s wrong with it.

Here’s the whole code:

public class Car
{
    private static counter = 0;
    private String name;

    public Car()
    {
    name = "car" +counter;
    counter++;
    }
}

Answer 1

You forgot the type. It seems that you mean

private static int count = 0;