* thereof.
   *
   * @param formal The type whose type variables or itself is mapped to other type(s). It's almost
   *     always a bug if {@code formal} isn't a type variable and contains no type variable. Make
   *     sure you are passing the two parameters in the right order.

  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) {
      // Type variables aren't allowed.
    }
  }

   * thereof.
   *
   * @param formal The type whose type variables or itself is mapped to other type(s). It's almost
   *     always a bug if {@code formal} isn't a type variable and contains no type variable. Make
   *     sure you are passing the two parameters in the right order.

  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) {
      // Type variables aren't allowed.
    }
  }