class or interface expected

[sara meecan]

I am writing a java program on putty

i have my p.java class as follows

/** comments

*/
public enum p{yes,no};

and this tells me i need a class or an interface and im so confused as to what is happening?
When i compile of putty with javac *.java it comes up with errors.

Could it be that its not the latest java compiler? If so i have a makefile so how do i add it to it?

Please help me with this, i have been trying this the entire night.

[limweizhong]

What are you trying to accomplish? You need to figure that out before you try compiling a program. I can't really help after that as I don't know Java, but I know C++ and your piece of code looks like it accomplishes nothing.

[r035198x]

If you want to make it public then it must be in it's own file that matches the name of the enum. Also, you should be using Java 5 or newer for you to be able to use enums.

[neeraj0708]

can you share your code here...!