Illegal forward Reference java issue

This is because of the restrictions on the use of Fields during Initialization. In particular, the use of static fields inside a static initialization block before the line on which they are declared can only be on the left hand side of an expression (i.e. an assignment), unless they are fully qualified (in your case Base.i).

So for example: if you insert int j = i; right after i = 1; you would get the same error.

The obvious way to solve the issue is to declare static int i; before the static initialization block.

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