Illegal forward reference

Question

When trying to declare a static array in my program I receive a static forward reference error, i'm not sure what I am doing wrong here...

static Square fieldGrid [ ] [ ] = new Square [ ROWSIZE ] [ COLSIZE ]; 

this is what I am using.

Answer 1

The preferred syntax is:

 static Square[][] fieldGrid = new Square [ ROWSIZE ] [ COLSIZE ];

Also, have you declared and initialized ROWSIZE and COLSIZE by the time you make this declaration?