elementsPlus.add(AFTER_LAST_2);
    return Ordering.explicit(Lists.newArrayList(elementsPlus));
  }

  /*
   * All the ContiguousSet generators below manually reject nulls here. In principle, we'd like to
   * defer that to Range, since it's ContiguousSet.create() that's used to create the sets. However,
   * that gets messy here, and we already have null tests for Range.
   */

  /*

     * For example, resolves "[3.8,4.0)" to "3.8", "3.8.1", "3.8.2".
     * The returned list of versions is only dependent on the configured repositories and their contents.
     * The supplied request may also refer to a single concrete version rather than a version range.
     * In this case though, the result contains simply the (parsed) input version, regardless of the
     * repositories and their contents.
     *

             */
            if ( this.state != 5 && this.state != 6 ) {
                doConnect();
            }
        }
        catch ( Exception ex ) {
            ex0 = ex; // Defer to below where we're locked
            return;
        }
        finally {
            synchronized ( run_thread ) {
                if ( run_thread != this.thread ) {
                    /*

  private static Object getJLA() {
    try {
      /*
       * We load sun.misc.* classes using reflection since Android doesn't support these classes and
       * would result in compilation failure if we directly refer to these classes.
       */
      Class<?> sharedSecrets = Class.forName(SHARED_SECRETS_CLASSNAME, false, null);
      Method langAccess = sharedSecrets.getMethod("getJavaLangAccess");
      return langAccess.invoke(null);

   *
   * <p>TODO(b/147144588): We are currently also missing the methods inherited from {@link
   * AnnotatedElement}, which {@code TypeVariable} began to extend only in Java 8. Those methods
   * refer only to types present in Java 7, so we could implement them in {@code TypeVariableImpl}
   * today. (We could probably then make {@code TypeVariableImpl} implement {@code AnnotatedElement}

    this.knownOrder = knownOrder;
    this.startIndex = startIndex;
  }

  /**
   * I'd like to make this a parameter to the constructor, but I can't because the stimulus
   * instances refer to {@code this}.
   */
  protected abstract Iterable<? extends Stimulus<E, ? super I>> getStimulusValues();

  /**
   * Returns a new target iterator each time it's called. This is the iterator you are trying to

  private static Object getJLA() {
    try {
      /*
       * We load sun.misc.* classes using reflection since Android doesn't support these classes and
       * would result in compilation failure if we directly refer to these classes.
       */
      Class<?> sharedSecrets = Class.forName(SHARED_SECRETS_CLASSNAME, false, null);
      Method langAccess = sharedSecrets.getMethod("getJavaLangAccess");
      return langAccess.invoke(null);

 *
 * <p>In this documentation, the terms <i>greatest</i>, <i>greater</i>, <i>least</i>, and
 * <i>lesser</i> are considered to refer to the comparator on the elements, and the terms
 * <i>first</i> and <i>last</i> are considered to refer to the elements' ordering in a list.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
final class SortedLists {

   * instead.
   *
   * <p>Unfortunately, the method reference {@code Optional::toJavaUtil} will not work, because it
   * could refer to either the static or instance version of this method. Write out the lambda
   * expression {@code o -> Optional.toJavaUtil(o)} instead.
   *
   * @since 21.0
   */
  @CheckForNull

    this.knownOrder = knownOrder;
    this.startIndex = startIndex;
  }

  /**
   * I'd like to make this a parameter to the constructor, but I can't because the stimulus
   * instances refer to {@code this}.
   */
  protected abstract Iterable<? extends Stimulus<E, ? super I>> getStimulusValues();

  /**
   * Returns a new target iterator each time it's called. This is the iterator you are trying to