*       C}, instance methods are skipped for nulls test.
   *   <li>Nulls test is not performed on method return values unless the method is a visible static
   *       factory method whose return type is {@code C} or {@code C}'s subtype.
   * </ul>
   *
   * <p>In all cases, if {@code C} needs custom logic for testing nulls, you can add an explicit

       * we're copying into a `contents` array whose type allows it to contain nulls. Still, it's
       * worth noting that we promise not to put nulls into the array in the first `size` elements.
       * We uphold that promise here because our callers promise that `elements` will not contain
       * nulls in its first `n` elements.
       */
      System.arraycopy(elements, 0, contents, size, n);
      size += n;

    return asImmutableList(array);
  }

  /** Views the array as an immutable list. Checks for nulls; does not copy. */
  private static <E> ImmutableList<E> construct(Object... elements) {
    return asImmutableList(checkElementsNotNull(elements));
  }

  /**
   * Views the array as an immutable list. Does not check for nulls; does not copy.
   *
   * <p>The array must be internally created.
   */

                    }
                    return transform(fromList, removeFirst);
                  }
                })
            .named("Lists.transform, random access, no nulls")
            .withFeatures(
                CollectionSize.ANY,
                ListFeature.REMOVE_OPERATIONS,
                CollectionFeature.SERIALIZABLE,
                CollectionFeature.ALLOWS_NULL_QUERIES)

    initThreeCopies();
    assertSetCountDecreasingFailure(e0(), 1);
  }

  // setCount with nulls:

  @CollectionSize.Require(absent = ZERO)
  @CollectionFeature.Require({SUPPORTS_REMOVE, ALLOWS_NULL_VALUES})
  public void testSetCount_removeNull_nullSupported() {
    initCollectionWithNullElement();
    assertSetCount(null, 0);
  }

  @CollectionFeature.Require(
      value = {SUPPORTS_ADD, ALLOWS_NULL_VALUES},

   *             impossible.
   *         <li>Test will fail if the constructor or factory method throws exception.
   *       </ul>
   *   <li>If there is no non-private constructor or non-private static factory method declared by
   *       {@code cls}, instance methods are skipped for nulls test.

  }

  /*
   * 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.
   */

  /*
   * These generators also rely on consecutive integer inputs (not necessarily in order, but no

   */
  /*
   * By declaring <T> instead of <T extends @Nullable Object>, we declare this method as requiring a
   * stream whose elements are non-null. However, the method goes out of its way to still handle
   * nulls in the stream. This means that the method can safely be used with a stream that contains
   * nulls as long as the *last* element is *not* null.
   *

      List<?> normalValues = (List<?>) asList(elements);
      List<E> extremeValues = new ArrayList<>();

      // nulls are usually out of bounds for a subset, so ban them altogether
      for (Object o : elements) {
        if (o == null) {
          throw new NullPointerException();
        }
      }

      // prepare extreme values to be filtered out of view

    initThreeCopies();
    assertSetCountDecreasingFailure(e0(), 1);
  }

  // setCount with nulls:

  @CollectionSize.Require(absent = ZERO)
  @CollectionFeature.Require({SUPPORTS_REMOVE, ALLOWS_NULL_VALUES})
  public void testSetCount_removeNull_nullSupported() {
    initCollectionWithNullElement();
    assertSetCount(null, 0);
  }

  @CollectionFeature.Require(
      value = {SUPPORTS_ADD, ALLOWS_NULL_VALUES},