* String.format} is not available. As an example, method implementations of the {@link
   * Preconditions} class use this formatter, for both of the reasons just discussed.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> Only the exact two-character placeholder sequence {@code "%s"} is
   * recognized.
   *

 *
 * @author Mark Davis
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public abstract class ComparisonChain {
  private ComparisonChain() {}

  /** Begins a new chained comparison statement. See example in the class documentation. */
  public static ComparisonChain start() {
    return ACTIVE;
  }

  private static final ComparisonChain ACTIVE =

  // earlier versions of Monitor even did something like this. I ended
  // up strongly favoring the current interface.
  //
  // I probably can't remember all the reasons (it's possible you
  // could find them in the code review archives), but here are a few:
  //
  // 1. What about leaving/unlocking? Are you going to do
  //    guard.enter() paired with monitor.leave()? That might get

 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 11.0
 */
@Immutable
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public interface HashFunction {
  /**
   * Begins a new hash code computation by returning an initialized, stateful {@code Hasher}
   * instance that is ready to receive data. Example:
   *
   * <pre>{@code
   * HashFunction hf = Hashing.md5();

   * String.format} is not available. As an example, method implementations of the {@link
   * Preconditions} class use this formatter, for both of the reasons just discussed.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> Only the exact two-character placeholder sequence {@code "%s"} is
   * recognized.
   *

   * value roughly equivalent to {@code a}.
   *
   * <p>The returned converter is serializable if {@code this} converter is.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> you should not override this method. It is non-final for legacy reasons.
   */
  @CheckReturnValue
  public Converter<B, A> reverse() {
    Converter<B, A> result = reverse;
    return (result == null) ? reverse = new ReverseConverter<>(this) : result;
  }

  // ClasLoader via its AccessControlContext. It does not seem to be possible to make a
  // URLClassLoader without capturing this reference, and it probably would not be desirable for
  // security reasons anyway. Therefore, the FRQ.close() method provides a way to stop the thread
  // explicitly. This test checks that calling that method does allow an app's ClassLoader to be

      INSTANCE;

      static final boolean BIG_ENDIAN = ByteOrder.nativeOrder().equals(ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN);

      /*
       * The following static final fields exist for performance reasons.
       *
       * In UnsignedBytesBenchmark, accessing the following objects via static final fields is the
       * fastest (more than twice as fast as the Java implementation, vs ~1.5x with non-final static

   *
   * <p>The executor uses {@code delegate} in order to {@link Executor#execute execute} each task in
   * turn, and does not create any threads of its own.
   *
   * <p>After execution begins on a thread from the {@code delegate} {@link Executor}, tasks are
   * polled and executed from a task queue until there are no more tasks. The thread will not be
   * released until there are no more tasks to run.
   *

        }
        hasSkip = true;
        partsSkipped++; // :: means we skipped an extra part in between the two delimiters.
        if (i == 0) {
          partsSkipped++; // Begins with ::, so we skipped the part preceding the first :
        }
        if (i == ipString.length() - 2) {
          partsSkipped++; // Ends with ::, so we skipped the part after the last :
        }
      }
    }