@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
   * ParametricNullness parametric nullness}. If a type parameter instead ranges over only non-null

  The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a
head unless there was a body to cut it off from:  that he had
never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin
at HIS time of life.

  The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could be
beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.

  The Queen's argument was, that if something wasn't done about

    }
  }

  /**
   * Verifies that a collection is immutable.
   *
   * <p>A collection is considered immutable if:
   *
   * <ol>
   *   <li>All its mutation methods result in UnsupportedOperationException, and do not change the
   *       underlying contents.
   *   <li>All methods that return objects that can indirectly mutate the collection throw

      throw e.getCause();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Verify that the listener completes in a reasonable amount of time, and Asserts that the future
   * throws an {@code ExecutableException} and that the cause of the {@code ExecutableException} is
   * {@code expectedCause}.
   */
  public void assertException(Throwable expectedCause) throws Exception {
    // Verify that the listener executed in a reasonable amount of time.

</source>

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    We used to set this only for packages that had manual supersource. That
    worked everywhere that I know of except for one place: when running the GWT
    util.concurrent tests under Guava.

    The problem is that GWT responds poorly to two .gwt.xml files in the same
    Java package; see https://goo.gl/pRV3Yn for details.

    The summary is that it ignores one file in favor of the other.

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    We used to set this only for packages that had manual supersource. That
    worked everywhere that I know of except for one place: when running the GWT
    util.concurrent tests under Guava.

    The problem is that GWT responds poorly to two .gwt.xml files in the same
    Java package; see https://goo.gl/pRV3Yn for details.

    The summary is that it ignores one file in favor of the other.

</source>

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    We used to set this only for packages that had manual supersource. That
    worked everywhere that I know of except for one place: when running the GWT
    util.concurrent tests under Guava.

    The problem is that GWT responds poorly to two .gwt.xml files in the same
    Java package; see https://goo.gl/pRV3Yn for details.

    The summary is that it ignores one file in favor of the other.

   * cannot implement that interface in source code in a way that will compile on both Java 7 and
   * Java 8. If we include the {@code getAnnotatedBounds()} method then its return type means it
   * won't compile on Java 7, while if we don't include the method then the compiler will complain

      if (object instanceof AsList) {
        AsList that = (AsList) object;
        return this.parent.equals(that.parent);
      }
      // We could delegate to super now but it would still box too much
      if (!(object instanceof List)) {
        return false;
      }
      List<?> that = (List<?>) object;
      if (this.size() != that.size()) {
        return false;
      }
      int i = parent.start;

   * propagating it.
   *
   * <p>While it's not safe in the general case to ignore exceptions that are thrown when closing an
   * I/O resource, it should generally be safe in the case of a resource that's being used only for
   * reading, such as an {@code InputStream}. Unlike with writable resources, there's no chance that