[SalesForce] how to execute anonymous block of apex code in sublimeText 3 with mavensmate

I'm using astyle. You can install in in sublimetext via package install.

Basically, when you call Execute Anonymous, it puts your code within a function within an unnamed class. This has the effect of causing anything you write within to be considered in the context of a class.

In fact, if you look at the logs for an Execute Anonymous, you'll see something like this:

CUMULATIVE_PROFILING External entry point: public static void execute(): executed 1 time in 0 ms

So, we can determine that our code is basically placed into a function called execute() in a temporary class.

We can do many things that we can do in a regular class context. You can write static functions:

static void a() { }

But, despite being a "static"-like execution context, you don't need to declare functions as static to access them:

void a() { }

You can't declare static functions inside a class, because inner classes can't have static methods:

class A {
    static void B() { }  // Won't compile
}

Similarly, we can't implement any interfaces that require top-level contexts, including schedulable, queueable, and batchable, because inner classes do not support these interfaces.

As an aside, AsyncApexJob requires an ApexClassId to be scheduled, but your compiled code is never persisted to the database, and therefore does not have an ApexClassId to attach to. Similarly, inner classes don't have their own unique ID, which is why you can't schedule inner classes for later execution.