}

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if each element in {@code iterable} after the first is greater than or
   * equal to the element that preceded it, according to the specified comparator. Note that this is
   * always true when the iterable has fewer than two elements.
   */
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> boolean isInOrder(
      Iterable<? extends T> iterable, Comparator<T> comparator) {

   * IllegalArgumentException} if passed a {@code fromElement} smaller than an earlier {@code
   * fromElement}. However, this method doesn't throw an exception in that situation, but instead
   * keeps the original {@code fromElement}. Similarly, this method keeps the original {@code
   * toElement}, instead of throwing an exception, if passed a {@code toElement} greater than an
   * earlier {@code toElement}.
   */
  @Override

   * Elements are added in encounter order.
   *
   * <p>If the mapped elements contain duplicates (according to {@link Object#equals}), the element
   * will be added more than once, with the count summed over all appearances of the element.
   *
   * <p>Note that {@code stream.collect(toMultiset(function, e -> 1, supplier))} is equivalent to

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * <p>Because an inverse of a set multimap cannot contain multiple pairs with the same key and
   * value, this method returns an {@code ImmutableSetMultimap} rather than the {@code
   * ImmutableMultimap} specified in the {@code ImmutableMultimap} class.
   */
  @Override
  public ImmutableSetMultimap<V, K> inverse() {
    ImmutableSetMultimap<V, K> result = inverse;

     * Returns a newly-created immutable map, using the last value for any key that was added more
     * than once. The iteration order of the returned map is the order in which entries were
     * inserted into the builder, unless {@link #orderEntriesByValue} was called, in which case
     * entries are sorted by value. If a key was added more than once, it appears in iteration order

   *
   * <p>If {@code expectedSize} is exactly the number of entries added to the builder before {@link
   * Builder#build} is called, the builder is likely to perform better than an unsized {@link
   * #builder()} would have.
   *
   * <p>It is not specified if any performance benefits apply if {@code expectedSize} is close to,
   * but not exactly, the number of entries added to the builder.
   *

   * first specified. That is, if multiple elements are {@linkplain Object#equals equal}, all except
   * the first are ignored.
   *
   * <p>The array {@code others} must not be longer than {@code Integer.MAX_VALUE - 6}.
   *
   * @since 3.0 (source-compatible since 2.0)
   */
  @SafeVarargs // For Eclipse. For internal javac we have disabled this pointless type of warning.

     * @throws NullPointerException if {@code element} is null
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code occurrences} is negative, or if this operation
     *     would result in more than {@link Integer#MAX_VALUE} occurrences of the element
     */
    @CanIgnoreReturnValue
    public Builder<E> addCopies(E element, int occurrences) {
      requireNonNull(contents); // see the comment on the field

  // whatever warnings might come along with it. :(

  /**
   * Returns an immutable list containing the given elements, in order.
   *
   * <p>The array {@code others} must not be longer than {@code Integer.MAX_VALUE - 12}.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if any element is null
   * @since 3.0 (source-compatible since 2.0)
   */

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * <p>Because an inverse of a list multimap can contain multiple pairs with the same key and
   * value, this method returns an {@code ImmutableListMultimap} rather than the {@code
   * ImmutableMultimap} specified in the {@code ImmutableMultimap} class.
   *
   * @since 11.0
   */
  @Override
  public ImmutableListMultimap<V, K> inverse() {