if (to instanceof WildcardType) {
          return; // Okay to say Foo is <?>
        }
        // Can't map from a raw class to anything other than itself or a wildcard.
        // You can't say "assuming String is Integer".
        // And we don't support "assuming String is T"; user has to say "assuming T is String".

          @Override
          public void tearDown() throws Exception {
            synchronized (result.stack) {
              assertEquals(
                  "The test should have cleared the stack (say, by virtue of running runTearDown)",
                  0,
                  result.stack.size());
            }
          }
        });
    return result;
  }

 * presented below:
 *
 * <pre>
 * void runManyThings({@literal List<ThingToRun>} thingsToRun) {
 *   for (ThingToRun thingToRun : thingsToRun) {
 *     thingToRun.run(); // say this may throw an exception, but you want to
 *                       // always run all thingsToRun
 *   }
 * }
 * </pre>
 *
 * <p>This is what the code would become:
 *
 * <pre>

   * however, {@code asMap().get(Object)} returns {@code null} instead of an empty collection.
   *
   * <p>Though the method signature doesn't say so explicitly, the returned map has {@link
   * SortedSet} values.
   */
  @Override
  public Map<K, Collection<V>> asMap() {
    return super.asMap();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *

   * however, {@code asMap().get(Object)} returns {@code null} instead of an empty collection.
   *
   * <p>Though the method signature doesn't say so explicitly, the returned map has {@link
   * SortedSet} values.
   */
  @Override
  public Map<K, Collection<V>> asMap() {
    return super.asMap();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *

 *
 * <p>The {@link #get}, {@link #removeAll}, and {@link #replaceValues} methods each return a {@link
 * Set} of values, while {@link #entries} returns a {@code Set} of map entries. Though the method
 * signature doesn't say so explicitly, the map returned by {@link #asMap} has {@code Set} values.
 *
 * <p>If the values corresponding to a single key should be ordered according to a {@link

    tester.testAllPublicStaticMethods(Predicates.class);
  }

  @J2ktIncompatible
  @GwtIncompatible // SerializableTester
  public void testCascadingSerialization() throws Exception {
    // Eclipse says Predicate<Integer>; javac says Predicate<Object>.
    Predicate<? super Integer> nasty =
        Predicates.not(
            Predicates.and(
                Predicates.or(
                    Predicates.equalTo((Object) 1),

    // inclusive.
    //
    // Note: According to the spec, a NumberFormatException is thrown for a number that is not
    // parseable, but the spec doesn't seem to say which exception is thrown for an invalid radix.
    // In contrast to the JVM, Kotlin native throws an Illegal argument exception in this case
    // (which seems to make more sense).
    try {

              // We can't check that the key is mightContain() == false before the
              // put() because the key could have already been generated *or* the
              // bloom filter might say true even when it's not there (false
              // positive).
              bloomFilter.put(key);
              // False negative should *never* happen.
              assertThat(bloomFilter.mightContain(key)).isTrue();

        comparator, keyFunction, valueFunction, mergeFunction);
  }

  /*
   * TODO(kevinb): Confirm that ImmutableSortedMap is faster to construct and
   * uses less memory than TreeMap; then say so in the class Javadoc.
   */
  private static final Comparator<?> NATURAL_ORDER = Ordering.natural();

  private static final ImmutableSortedMap<Comparable<?>, Object> NATURAL_EMPTY_MAP =
      new ImmutableSortedMap<>(