[paulddraper]

> Java needs X, meaning you can't Y

X and Y are certainly both possible, even if the Java languages chooses not to have Y.

[kelnos]

Parse error: implicitly the author intended "Java needs X, meaning you can't Y in Java".

Please read charitably and give the poster the benefit of the doubt.

[masklinn]

> Parse error: implicitly the author intended "Java needs X, meaning you can't Y in Java".

Except the second clause does not generally follow from the first yet is presented thus. You can't Y in Java because Java very specifically decided not to support Y.

[paulddraper]

The correct statement is

1. Java needs X.

2. Unreleatedly, Java chose not to Y.