* they return from {@code get} behave like (and, of course, implement) {@link List} and {@link
 * Set}, respectively.
 *
 * <p>For example, the "presidents" code snippet above used a {@code ListMultimap}; if it had used a
 * {@code SetMultimap} instead, two presidents would have vanished, and last names might or might
 * not appear in chronological order.
 *

   *
   * <p>The returned iterable's iterator supports {@code remove()} if the iterator of the underlying
   * iterable supports it. Note that it is <i>not</i> possible to delete the last skipped element by
   * immediately calling {@code remove()} on that iterator, as the {@code Iterator} contract states
   * that a call to {@code remove()} before a call to {@code next()} will throw an {@link
   * IllegalStateException}.

before, `and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor child,
`for I never was so small as this before, never!  And I declare
it's too bad, that it is!'

  As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another
moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water.  Her first
idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, `and in that
case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself.  (Alice had

  /**
   * Returns an encoding that behaves equivalently to this encoding, but adds a separator string
   * after every {@code n} characters. Any occurrences of any characters that occur in the separator
   * are skipped over in decoding.
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if any alphabet or padding characters appear in the separator
   *     string, or if {@code n <= 0}

            return true;
          }
        }
      }
      return false;
    }

    /**
     * Advances to the given entry. Returns true if the entry was valid, false if it should be
     * skipped.
     */
    boolean advanceTo(ReferenceEntry<K, V> entry) {
      try {
        long now = ticker.read();
        K key = entry.getKey();
        V value = getLiveValue(entry, now);

    long skipped = skipUpTo(in, n);
    if (skipped < n) {
      throw new EOFException(
          "reached end of stream after skipping " + skipped + " bytes; " + n + " bytes expected");
    }
  }

  /**
   * Discards up to {@code n} bytes of data from the input stream. This method will block until
   * either the full amount has been skipped or until the end of the stream is reached, whichever

  /** Counts the bytes in the given input stream using skip if possible. */
  private long countBySkipping(InputStream in) throws IOException {
    long count = 0;
    long skipped;
    while ((skipped = skipUpTo(in, Integer.MAX_VALUE)) > 0) {
      count += skipped;
    }
    return count;
  }

  /**
   * Copies the contents of this byte source to the given {@code OutputStream}. Does not close
   * {@code output}.
   *

   * <p>The names are retrieved from the {@code nameSupplier} on the thread that is being renamed
   * right before each task is run. The renaming is best effort, if a {@link SecurityManager}
   * prevents the renaming then it will be skipped but the tasks will still execute.
   *
   * @param executor The executor to decorate
   * @param nameSupplier The source of names for each task
   */
  @J2ktIncompatible
  @GwtIncompatible // concurrency

        }
        hasSkip = true;
        partsSkipped++; // :: means we skipped an extra part in between the two delimiters.
        if (i == 0) {
          partsSkipped++; // Begins with ::, so we skipped the part preceding the first :
        }
        if (i == ipString.length() - 2) {
          partsSkipped++; // Ends with ::, so we skipped the part after the last :
        }
      }
    }

   * absent, it will fall back to a heavyweight operation that will open a stream, {@link
   * Reader#skip(long) skip} to the end of the stream, and return the total number of chars that
   * were skipped.
   *
   * <p>Note that for sources that implement {@link #lengthIfKnown} to provide a more efficient
   * implementation, it is <i>possible</i> that this method will return a different number of chars