Scala giving me “illegal start of definition”

Question

I\'m trying to get started with Scala and cannot get out of the starting gate.

A file consisting of the line

package x

gives me

Answer 1

I had the same issue when I was executing scala program eg. "Game.scala" from terminal.

Compiling part was ok, error was shown when running the code, see below

☐ Wrong:

user@pc:~$scala Game.scala
/home/$USER/.../src/ul/org/bloxorz/Game.scala:1: error: illegal start of definition
package ul.org.bloxorz

Scala code should be invoked from terminal pretty much the same as Java code (you should give it a fully qualified class name and not the file name like I did in first example)

☑ Correct:

user@pc:~$scala ul.org.bloxorz.Game