Questionable compilation failure

[Millies, Sebastian]

Hello there,

on my Windows 7 (64bit) box, the following does not compile with the developer preview build (b 106). Should it?

import java.util.function.Supplier;

public class SupplierTest {

    class Concrete<T> implements Supplier<Concrete<T>> {
        @Override
        public Concrete<T> get() {
            return this;
        }
    }

    interface Test  {
        default void doSomething() {
             new Concrete<String>();   // <-----
        }
    }

}

The error message is:

\SupplierTest.java:16: error: non-static variable this cannot be referenced from a static context
new Concrete<String>();
^

However, a default method implementation is not static, or is it? (Perhaps it's just the error
message that's confusing me.)


n  Sebastian




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