The “too many constants” error message is shown with a pointer at the class keyword in the class definition. The method has too many methods to compile.

As the output shows, the recommended “indent” approach prevents inlining of the constant variables and allows the updated Constants.java constants to be fully reflected in the executed code.

Goetz spoke to InfoQ about these proposed hyphenated keywords: InfoQ: What has been the community response for hyphenated keywords in the Java language?