}

  /*
   * Our implementation works fine with a null `dir`. However, there's nothing in the documentation
   * of the supertype that suggests that implementations are expected to tolerate null. That said, I
   * see calls in Google code that pass a null `dir` to a FilenameFilter.... So let's declare the
   * parameter as non-nullable (since passing null to a FilenameFilter is unsafe in general), but if

    return createFromEntries(entries);
  }

  public abstract Set<Entry<K, V>> createFromEntries(Entry<K, V>[] entries);

  @Override
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // generic arrays make typesafety sad
  public Entry<K, V>[] createArray(int length) {
    return (Entry<K, V>[]) new Entry<?, ?>[length];
  }

  /** Returns the original element list, unchanged. */
  @Override