> Perhaps then we should focus on teaching these concepts, which are essential to java, first. As the JEP explains, this change does make the concepts of class

> Perhaps then we should focus on teaching these concepts, which are essential to java, first. As the JEP explains, this change does make the concepts of classes and access modifiers easier to teach by allowing the teacher to postpone their introduction to a point in time when they're actually useful and can be understood. Access control, static, and class declarations are only meaningful once you have other classes and/or objects interacting with your code. We don't want to force teachers to teach programming in the large early because many of them told us they don't do that anyway. > instead of undermining the core of the language and the platform The syntax and concepts of anonymous classes are unchanged. Providing an unnamed class, implicitly, when a class isn't needed is consistent with how we already provide an unnamed package and an unnamed module implicitly when they're not needed.