* exception is propagated to the caller exactly as-is. If, on the other hand, the time limit is
   * reached, the proxy will attempt to abort the call to the target, and will throw an {@link
   * UncheckedTimeoutException} to the caller.
   *
   * <p>It is important to note that the primary purpose of the proxy object is to return control to

   * code would be responsible for populating a "real" {@code T} (which might still be the value
   * {@code null}!) before returning it to callers. Depending on how the code is structured, a
   * nullness analysis might not understand that the field has been populated. To avoid that problem
   * without having to add {@code @SuppressWarnings}, the code can call this method.

      ATOMIC_HELPER.compareAndSetSeenExceptions(this, null, seenExceptionsLocal);
      /*
       * If another handleException() caller created the set, we need to use that copy in case yet
       * other callers have added to it.
       *
       * This read is guaranteed to get us the right value because we only set this once (here).
       *

         * requireNonNull is safe because the callers promise to put non-null objects in the first
         * `length` array elements.
         */
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // our callers put only E instances into the array
        E onlyElement = (E) requireNonNull(elements[0]);
        return of(onlyElement);
      default:
        /*
         * The suppression is safe because the callers promise to put non-null objects in the first

    int result = hashCode;
    return (result == 0) ? hashCode = delegate.hashCode() : result;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return delegate.toString();
  }

  // All callers of the constructor are restricted to <E extends Enum<E>>.
  @Override
  @J2ktIncompatible // serialization
  Object writeReplace() {
    return new EnumSerializedForm<E>(delegate);
  }

   * code would be responsible for populating a "real" {@code T} (which might still be the value
   * {@code null}!) before returning it to callers. Depending on how the code is structured, a
   * nullness analysis might not understand that the field has been populated. To avoid that problem
   * without having to add {@code @SuppressWarnings}, the code can call this method.

    return seq.length() - pos;
  }

  /*
   * To avoid the need to call requireNonNull so much, we could consider more clever approaches,
   * such as:
   *
   * - Make checkOpen return the non-null `seq`. Then callers can assign that to a local variable or
   *   even back to `this.seq`. However, that may suggest that we're defending against concurrent
   *   mutation, which is not an actual risk because we use `synchronized`.

  }

  /**
   * Wrapper for {@link Map#get(Object)} that forces the caller to pass in a key of the same type as
   * the map. Besides being slightly shorter than code that uses {@link #getMap()}, it also ensures
   * that callers don't pass an {@link Entry} by mistake.
   */
  protected V get(K key) {
    return getMap().get(key);
  }

  /**
   * Creates a TimeLimiter instance using the given executor service to execute method calls.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> using a bounded executor may be counterproductive! If the thread pool fills
   * up, any time callers spend waiting for a thread may count toward their time limit, and in this
   * case the call may even time out before the target method is ever invoked.
   *

 * supertype of `Function<A, B>` turns out to be massively more useful to callers in practice: They
 * want their output to be non-null in operations like `stream.map(myConverter)`, and we can
 * guarantee that as long as we also require the input type to be non-null[*] (which is a
 * requirement that existing callers already fulfill).
 *
 * Disclaimer: Part of the reason that callers are so well adapted to `Function<A, B>` may be that