class level error : expected in java

Question

when I am coding this at class level

int a;
a=5;

it throws error : \"identifier expected\"

But when I declare it as a local variable li

Answer 1

Assigning a value to variable is called as expression. We could not write any expression in a class. We could do the same in method bodies. Basically we could right expressions when scope is defined and hence allowed in method.