import java.util.Iterator;

/** An ordering that uses the reverse of the natural order of the values. */
@GwtCompatible(serializable = true)
@SuppressWarnings({"unchecked", "rawtypes"}) // TODO(kevinb): the right way to explain this??
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
final class ReverseNaturalOrdering extends Ordering<Comparable<?>> implements Serializable {
  static final ReverseNaturalOrdering INSTANCE = new ReverseNaturalOrdering();

  @Override

    // ordering.reverse() might be optimized, so let it do its thing
    return ordering.<T>reverse().<@NonNull S>nullsLast();
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // still need the right way to explain this
  @Override
  public <S extends @Nullable T> Ordering<@Nullable S> nullsFirst() {
    return (Ordering<@Nullable S>) this;
  }

  @Override
  public <S extends @Nullable T> Ordering<@Nullable S> nullsLast() {

/** An ordering that uses the natural order of the values. */
@GwtCompatible(serializable = true)
@SuppressWarnings({"unchecked", "rawtypes"}) // TODO(kevinb): the right way to explain this??
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
final class NaturalOrdering extends Ordering<Comparable<?>> implements Serializable {
  static final NaturalOrdering INSTANCE = new NaturalOrdering();

  }

  @Override
  public int compare(@ParametricNullness T a, @ParametricNullness T b) {
    return forwardOrder.compare(b, a);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // how to explain?
  @Override
  public <S extends T> Ordering<S> reverse() {
    return (Ordering<S>) forwardOrder;
  }

  // Override the min/max methods to "hoist" delegation outside loops

  @Override

  }

  @Override
  public <S extends @Nullable T> Ordering<@Nullable S> nullsFirst() {
    return ordering.<@NonNull S>nullsFirst();
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // still need the right way to explain this
  @Override
  public <S extends @Nullable T> Ordering<@Nullable S> nullsLast() {
    return (Ordering<@Nullable S>) this;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(@CheckForNull Object object) {

@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
final class NullnessCasts {
  /**
   * Accepts a {@code @Nullable T} and returns a plain {@code T}, without performing any check that
   * that conversion is safe.
   *
   * <p>This method is intended to help with usages of type parameters that have {@linkplain

   *
   * (PatternFilenameFilter is of course one of those classes that shouldn't be a publicly visible
   * class to begin with but rather something returned from a static factory method whose declared
   * return type is plain FilenameFilter. If we made such a change, then the annotation we choose
   * here would have no significance to end users, who would be forced to conform to the signature
   * used in FilenameFilter.)
   */
  @Override

   * only contain entries which are already present in the cache.
   *
   * @since 11.0
   */
  /*
   * <? extends Object> is mostly the same as <?> to plain Java. But to nullness checkers, they
   * differ: <? extends Object> means "non-null types," while <?> means "all types."
   */
  ImmutableMap<K, V> getAllPresent(Iterable<? extends Object> keys);

  /**

     *
     * Unfortunately, we don't distinguish between these two cases in our public API: Joiner.on(...)
     * and Joiner.on(...).useForNull(...) both declare the same return type: plain Joiner. To ensure
     * that users *can* pass null arguments to Joiner, we annotate it as if it always tolerates null
     * inputs, rather than as if it never tolerates them.
     *

    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns a {@link Collection} of all the permutations of the specified {@link Collection}.
   *
   * <p><i>Notes:</i> This is an implementation of the Plain Changes algorithm for permutations
   * generation, described in Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming", Volume 4, Chapter 7,
   * Section 7.2.1.2.
   *