jsr335

In the current JSR 335 draft , it's mentioned in the change log entry for 0.6.0 that it "eliminated support for unbound inner class constructor references". To illustrate, suppose you have an outer class named A and an inner class named B , and you want a function that takes an A and creates a new B instance: Function<A, A.B> foo = a -> a.new B(); Prior to 0.6.0, you can also use the constructor reference syntax to do the same thing (it's even documented in State of the Lambda ): Function<A, A.B> foo = A.B::new; As mentioned above, that syntax is no longer supported in 0.6.0. I'm really

In Java 8, I can easily write: interface Interface1 { default void method1() { synchronized (this) { // Something } } static void method2() { synchronized (Interface1.class) { // Something } } } I will get the full synchronisation semantics that I can use also in classes. I cannot, however, use the synchronized modifier on method declarations: interface Interface2 { default synchronized void method1() { // ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Modifier 'synchronized' not allowed here } static synchronized void method2() { // ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Modifier 'synchronized' not allowed here } } Now, one can argue that the two