thoughtfully.  `I should like to hear her try and repeat
something now.  Tell her to begin.'  He looked at the Gryphon as
if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice.

  `Stand up and repeat "'TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,"' said
the Gryphon.

  `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat
lessons!' thought Alice; `I might as well be at school at once.'

     * concurrent read operation to see inconsistent data. This is made easier by the nature of the
     * read operations in Map. For example, no operation can reveal that the table has grown but the
     * threshold has not yet been updated, so there are no atomicity requirements for this with
     * respect to reads.
     *

thoughtfully.  `I should like to hear her try and repeat
something now.  Tell her to begin.'  He looked at the Gryphon as
if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice.

  `Stand up and repeat "'TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,"' said
the Gryphon.

  `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat
lessons!' thought Alice; `I might as well be at school at once.'

 * cancellation of the operation so far. The only way to extract the value or exception from a step
 * is by declaring that step to be the last step of the pipeline. Nevertheless, we refer to the
 * "value" of a successful step or the "result" (value or exception) of any step.
 *
 * <ol>
 *   <li>A pipeline starts at its leaf step (or steps), which is created from either a callable

     * concurrent read operation to see inconsistent data. This is made easier by the nature of the
     * read operations in Map. For example, no operation can reveal that the table has grown but the
     * threshold has not yet been updated, so there are no atomicity requirements for this with
     * respect to reads.
     *