Why can't a top level class be static in Java?

Question

Can\'t find a satisfactory answer anywhere.

Answer 1

Well I guess you dont understand properly if you desire to see a "static" keyword in an outer class.

In short how are you even going to use the feature of static on an outer class?

public class Outer
{
   public static int x = 0 ; 

}

Now you are going to do Outer.x to access the static variable . This would imply that x shares a single value across all objects of Outer.

Now that we have that away , of what consequence would the static keyword in the Outer class be ? .