public <T> void testVariableTypeTokenNotAllowed() {
    /*
     * We'd use assertThrows here, but that causes no exception to be thrown under Java 8,
     * presumably because the ThrowingRunnable lambda triggers some kind of bug in Java 8's
     * reflection implementation.
     */
    try {
      new TypeToken<T>() {};
      fail();
    } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {